Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

Which creature did the duck decline to regard with affection?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: creature · What happens: do, regard · To what, where: duck decline

This is exam question 3 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	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	6 decline	det
5	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 decline	compound
6	decline	decline	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 regard	mark
8	regard	regard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 decline	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 affection	case
10	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regard	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which creature	the duck decline					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decline=Eventuality
2	regard	to-infinitive	which creature not said here	the duck decline not said here				with affection	vn assessment-34.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

owls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	owls	owl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the sly old barn tomcat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tomcat	det
2	sly	sly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tomcat	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tomcat	amod
4	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tomcat	compound
5	tomcat	tomcat	NOUN	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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