Exam question 2 · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

What did George's mother consider the most suitable course for her son's future employment?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mother, son · What happens: consider, employ · To what, where: suitable course

This is exam question 2 of lesson 944 «Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George is confirmed, gets a hymn-book from Emily, and sends her pictures while she is ill» 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	6 consider	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 consider	aux
3	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mother	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 George	case
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consider	nsubj
6	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 course	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 suitable	advmod
9	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 course	amod
10	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consider	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	16 employment	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 son	nmod:poss
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 employment	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 son	case
15	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 employment	amod
16	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consider	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 consider	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consider	past · do-support	George's mother	the suitable course				for mother's son's future employment	vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme course=Attribute
2	employ		mother's son						nom employment «state transitive»: 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

a calling that would let him leave the house and see the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 calling	det
2	calling	calling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 calling	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 see	cc
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	would	a calling	him = he	tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	him = he not said here	the house	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
3	see	infinitive	a calling not said here	the world	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a respectable post at the General's office near the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 post	det
2	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 post	amod
3	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 office	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 General	det
6	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 office	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 General	case
8	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 post	nmod
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 post	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a calling that would let him leave the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 calling	det
2	calling	calling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 calling	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	would	a calling	him = he					tree rules
2	leave	infinitive	him = he not said here	the house					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 4

a trade that would take him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 trade	det
2	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trade	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	5 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	would	a trade	him = he				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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