Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

In which receptacle did George deposit his earnings prior to purchasing materials for painting?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: George · What happens: deposit, purchase · To what, where: earnings, receptacle, materials

This is exam question 3 of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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 receptacle	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 receptacle	det
3	receptacle	receptacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deposit	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 deposit	aux
5	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 deposit	nsubj
6	deposit	deposit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 earnings	nmod:poss
8	earnings	earning	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deposit	obj
9	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	11 purchasing	mark
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 prior	fixed
11	purchasing	purchase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 deposit	advcl
12	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 purchasing	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 painting	case
14	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 purchasing	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 deposit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deposit	past · do-support	George	George's earnings		which receptacle			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent earning=Theme in receptacle=Destination
2	purchase	gerund	George not said here	materials				for painting	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent material=Theme for painting=Asset

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 box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the money tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tin	det
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tin	compound
3	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the savings-box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 savings	det
2	savings	savings	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 savings	punct
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the piggy bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bank	det
2	piggy	piggy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bank	compound
3	bank	bank	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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