Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…

What was the nature of the legacy bequeathed by the narrator's aunt upon her death?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature, her · What happens: be, bequeath, die · To what, where: legacy

This is exam question 2 of lesson 932 «Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare, and a legacy» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 legacy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 legacy	det
7	legacy	legacy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	bequeathed	bequeath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 legacy	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 aunt	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrator	det
11	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 aunt	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 narrator	case
13	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bequeathed	obl
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 death	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 death	nmod:poss
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 aunt	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of the legacy			tree rules
2	bequeath	participle		the legacy not said here	by the narrator's aunt upon her death	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	die		her = she			nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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

a monthly subscription for a box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 subscription	det
2	monthly	monthly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 subscription	amod
3	subscription	subscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 box	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 subscription	nmod

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

Option 2

a yearly subscription for a seat in the second tier, bequeathed for Saturdays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 subscription	det
2	yearly	yearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 subscription	amod
3	subscription	subscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bequeathed	nsubj:pass
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 seat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 seat	det
6	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 subscription	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 tier	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tier	det
9	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 tier	amod
10	tier	tier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seat	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bequeathed	punct
12	bequeathed	bequeath	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 Saturdays	case
14	Saturdays	saturday	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bequeathed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bequeath	participle · passive		a yearly subscription for a seat in the second tier				for Saturdays goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme for saturday=Goal

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a yearly subscription for a seat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 subscription	det
2	yearly	yearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 subscription	amod
3	subscription	subscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 seat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 seat	det
6	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 subscription	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a yearly subscription for a seat, with the condition that the heir remember the aunt weekly

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 subscription	det
2	yearly	yearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 subscription	amod
3	subscription	subscription	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 seat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 seat	det
6	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 subscription	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 condition	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 condition	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 condition	det
10	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 subscription	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 remember	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heir	det
13	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remember	nsubj
14	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 condition	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 aunt	det
16	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remember	obj
17	weekly	weekly	ADV	_	14 remember	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	infinitive	the heir	the aunt				weekly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent aunt=Theme

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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