Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…
By what phrase did the General formally express approval of the porter's son's drawings?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase, son · What happens: do, approve, draw · To what, where: General, drawings
This is exam question 4 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 General | det |
| 6 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 8 express | advmod |
| 8 | express | express | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 approval | amod |
| 9 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 drawings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 porter | det |
| 12 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 porter | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drawings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 son | case |
| 16 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 approval | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | phrase | the General | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | approve | the porter's son's drawings | nom approval «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | draw | the porter's son | nom drawing «communication 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
"Charming, quite charming!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
| 2 | Charming | Charming | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 charming | punct |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 charming | advmod |
| 5 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Charming | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 charming | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 charming | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
"Charming!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
| 2 | Charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Charming | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
"Most charming, most charming indeed!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 charming | punct |
| 2 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 charming | amod |
| 3 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 charming | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 charming | punct |
| 5 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 charming | nsubj |
| 6 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 6 charming | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 charming | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 charming | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm in a quote | gerund | Most charming | indeed property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
"Wonderful!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wonderful | punct |
| 2 | Wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wonderful | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wonderful | punct |
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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