Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…

Why did the narrator's aunt remain in her box during the alarm of fire?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: aunt · What happens: do, remain, alarm · To what, where: box, fire

This is exam question 3 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrator	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 aunt	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 narrator	case
6	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remain	nsubj
7	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 box	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 box	nmod:poss
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remain	obl
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 alarm	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 alarm	det
13	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 fire	case
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 alarm	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past				during the alarm of fire	tree rules
2	remain	present	the narrator's aunt		aunt's box		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in box=Location
3	alarm			fire			nom alarm «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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

the people ahead had locked the box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 locked	nsubj:pass
3	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	2 people	advmod
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 locked	aux
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 box	det
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 locked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past · perfect · passive		the people					vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient box=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the people before her closed the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 closed	nsubj
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 people	nmod
5	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past	the people before her	the door					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 3

the crowd before her shut the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crowd	det
2	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 shut	mark
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 shut	nmod:poss
5	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crowd	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the people before her closed the door and she could not leave the box in time

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 closed	nsubj
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 people	nmod
5	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 closed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 leave	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 leave	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 leave	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 leave	advmod
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 closed	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 box	det
14	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leave	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 time	case
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past	the people before her	the door					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
2	not leave	could	she	the box			time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/932-pg27200-part143/e3/