Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie…

Which description most accurately identifies the reason the tin soldier desired to depart from the room?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: description · What happens: identify, desire, depart · To what, where: reason, tin soldier, room

This is exam question 4 of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 description	det
2	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 identifies	nsubj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 identifies	advmod
5	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 reason	det
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 identifies	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soldier	det
9	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 soldier	compound
10	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reason	nmod
11	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 soldier	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 depart	mark
13	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 desired	xcomp
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 room	det
16	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 depart	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	present	which description	the reason the tin soldier		accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent reason=Theme
2	desire	participle		the tin soldier not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	depart not said to happen	to-infinitive			the room		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from room=Initial_Location

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

he disliked the room and its dusty corners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 disliked	nsubj
2	disliked	dislike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 disliked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 corners	cc
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 corners	nmod:poss
7	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 corners	amod
8	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 room	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dislike	past	he	the room and its dusty corners					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus

Option 2

he was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bored property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he found the room too dull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 dull	advmod
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	he	the room				dull property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he found his confinement tedious and melancholy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 confinement	nmod:poss
4	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	tedious	tedious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 melancholy	cc
7	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tedious	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	he	his confinement				tedious property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confinement=Topic
2	confine		his = he						nom confinement «state transitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/922-pg27200-part133/e4/