Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, Our Aunt: the theatre days, a fire scare…

In what manner did Agent Fabs claim to have spent the night in the flies?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Agent Fabs · What happens: do, claim, spend · To what, where: manner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Fabs	compound
6	Fabs	fab	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 claim	nsubj
7	claim	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	10 spent	mark
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 spent	aux
10	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 claim	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spent	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 flies	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 flies	det
15	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spent	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		what manner			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	claim speech: other	present	Agent Fabs				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spend	to-infinitive · perfect			night	in the flies	vn consume-66-1 «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

he dozed and was shut in

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	2 dozed	nsubj
2	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 shut	cc
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shut	aux:pass
5	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dozed	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 shut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze	past	he						vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shut in	past · passive	he not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»

Option 2

he sang loudly

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	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 sang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he slept and was locked in

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	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 locked	cc
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 locked	aux:pass
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 slept	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	5 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lock in	past · passive	he not said here						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 4

he woke and climbed down

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	2 woke	nsubj
2	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 climbed	cc
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 woke	conj
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 climbed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	past	he						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	climb down	past	he not said here					down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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