Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 13…

With reference to the passage, state which objects declare themselves "so wretchedly made" when addressed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: objects · What happens: declare, make, address · To what, where: objects, passage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 926 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 137: the dream-man decorates Hjalmar's room and sails him to his nurse» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 declare	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 declare	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 state	punct
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
8	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	9 objects	det
9	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 declare	nsubj
10	declare	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 declare	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 declare	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 made	advmod
14	wretchedly	wretchedly	ADV	_	15 made	advmod
15	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 declare	advcl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 addressed	advmod
18	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 made	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 declare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	declare speech: other	present	which objects	objects = object	the passage and state	with reference	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme to passage=Recipient
2	make in a quote	participle	which objects not said here			wretchedly property	tree rules
3	address	participle	which objects not said here				vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

the letters of the copy-book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 letters	det
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
5	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 book	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 copy	punct
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letters	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	letter			the copy book					nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

the letters on the page

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 letters	det
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 page	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 page	det
5	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letters	nmod

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

Option 3

the letters of the copy-book and the sums on the slate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 letters	det
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 book	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 book	det
5	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 book	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 copy	punct
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 letters	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sums	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sums	det
10	sums	sum	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 book	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 slate	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 slate	det
13	slate	slate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sums	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	letter			the copy book and the sums on the slate					nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

the words on the blackboard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 words	det
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 blackboard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 blackboard	det
5	blackboard	blackboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 words	nmod

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

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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