Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie the Dream-God, part 13…

State the reason the old lamp declines to be melted down while the old people live.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old people · What happens: melt down, live

This is exam question 4 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reason	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reason	det
3	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 declines	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 declines	amod
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 declines	compound
7	declines	decline	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reason	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	10 melted	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 melted	aux:pass
10	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 declines	acl
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 melted	compound:prt
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 live	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 live	nsubj
16	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 melted	advcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt down	to-infinitive · passive							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»
2	live	present	the old people						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 old people still love and keep him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 people	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 love	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 love	advmod
5	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 keep	cc
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 love	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	the old people				still		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep	infinitive	the old people not said here	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

the children love and keep him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 children	det
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 love	nsubj
3	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 keep	cc
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 love	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present	the children						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	keep	infinitive	the children not said here	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

because they keep him dusted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	3 keep	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dusted	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	obj
5	dusted	dust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	they	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	dust	participle							vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he is loved by the old man

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 loved	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	aux:pass
3	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	present · passive	the old man	he					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus

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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