Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…
Which country does the Portuguese duck claim as her place of origin?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: country · What happens: do · To what, where: Portuguese duck claim
This is exam question 1 of lesson 942 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hurt songbird lands in a farmyard and is cared for by a duck» 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 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 claim | det |
| 5 | Portuguese | portuguese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 claim | amod |
| 6 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 claim | compound |
| 7 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 place | nmod:poss |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 claim | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 origin | case |
| 12 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | which country | the Portuguese duck claim | as country's place of origin | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claim=Eventuality |
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
Portugal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portugal | Portugal | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Holland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holland | Holland | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Newfoundland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newfoundland | newfoundland | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Belgium
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belgium | Belgium | 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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