Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

What injury did the little singing-bird sustain upon his descent from the roof?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: injury, little singing bird, bird · What happens: do, sustain, descend · To what, where: roof

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	obj
2	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
6	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bird	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 singing	punct
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sustain	nsubj
9	sustain	sustain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 descent	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 descent	nmod:poss
12	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sustain	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 roof	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roof	det
15	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sustain	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	injury			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	sustain	present	the little singing bird	the roof	upon bird's descent	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
3	descend		bird			nom descent «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 · ← Mova's choice

a torn tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tail	det
2	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tail	amod
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

a deep cut across the wing feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cut	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cut	amod
3	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	7 feathers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 feathers	det
6	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feathers	compound
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a broken wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wing	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wing	amod
3	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

a broken wing and leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wing	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wing	amod
3	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 leg	cc
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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