Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man an…

What refrain did the furniture repeatedly utter when the visitor entered the room?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: visitor · What happens: be, do, enter · To what, where: furniture, room

This is exam question 2 of lesson 921 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: a lonely old man and a little boy become friends across the street» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	refrain	refrain	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 furniture	det
5	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	_	7 utter	advmod
7	utter	utt	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 did	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 entered	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 visitor	det
10	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	nsubj
11	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present				tree rules
2	do	past		the furniture	utt property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent furniture=Eventuality
3	enter	past	the visitor	the room		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Creak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Creak	creak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Sigh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sigh	sigh	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hi	hi	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Sit down, I am creaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creaking	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 creaking	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 creaking	aux
6	creaking	creak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	creak	present · progressive	I						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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