Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends lea…
Which creatures accompanied the four brothers when they returned to their father and sister?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creatures · What happens: accompany, return · To what, where: four brothers
This is exam question 4 of lesson 941 «Andersen's Tales, The Blind Girl: the blind girl sends leaves home and the word BELIEVE glows» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 creatures | det |
| 2 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 accompanied | nsubj |
| 3 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 5 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 accompanied | obj |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 returned | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accompanied | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sister | cc |
| 14 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 accompanied | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past | which creatures | the four brothers | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | creatures = creature | to creatures's father and sister result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to father=Result |
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 wolf and the hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hare | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hare | det |
| 5 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wolf | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the lion and the eagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 eagle | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eagle | det |
| 5 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lion | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the stag and the antelope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stag | det |
| 2 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 antelope | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 antelope | det |
| 5 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stag | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the stag and the antelope that ran beside them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stag | det |
| 2 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 antelope | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 antelope | det |
| 5 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stag | conj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the stag and the antelope | beside them = they | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Trajectory |
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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