Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talk…

On what occasion did the narrator habitually call upon Ole?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, call · To what, where: narrator, occasion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 929 «Andersen's Tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 140: Ole talks about boulders, the wild ride to Amack and falling stars» 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 occasion	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 occasion	nsubj
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 narrator	det
6	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	habitually	habitually	ADV	_	8 call	advmod
8	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 Ole	case
10	Ole	Ole	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 call	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the narrator		occasion			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent narrator=Eventuality
2	call	present						upon Ole; habitually property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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

directly after New Year's day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	directly	directly	ADV	_	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	6 day	case
3	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Year	compound
4	Year	Year	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 day	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Year	case
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 directly	obl

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

Option 2

during the first week of spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	during	during	ADP	_	4 week	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 week	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 week	amod
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 spring	case
6	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 week	nmod

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

Option 3

at Christmas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	2 Christmas	case
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

every Sunday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 Sunday	det
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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