Exam question 4 · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…
What kind of drawing did George send to Emily to occupy her during her convalescence?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: George · What happens: send, occupy, convalesce · To what, where: kind, Emily, George
This is exam question 4 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 drawing | case |
| 4 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | aux |
| 6 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 send | nsubj |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Emily | case |
| 9 | Emily | Emily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 send | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 occupy | mark |
| 11 | occupy | occupy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 send | advcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 occupy | obj |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 convalescence | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 convalescence | nmod:poss |
| 15 | convalescence | convalescence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 occupy | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · do-support | George | what kind of drawing | Emily | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kind=Theme to emily=Destination | |||
| 2 | occupy | to-infinitive | George not said here | George | during George's convalescence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | convalesce | George | nom convalescence «process 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
pictures of horses and dogs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 horses | case |
| 3 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 pictures | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 dogs | cc |
| 5 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 horses | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
drawings of palaces and buildings with domes and gardens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 palaces | case |
| 3 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 drawings | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 buildings | cc |
| 5 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 palaces | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 domes | case |
| 7 | domes | dome | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 buildings | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gardens | cc |
| 9 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 palaces | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | palaces and buildings with domes and gardens | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
drawings of palaces and buildings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 palaces | case |
| 3 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 drawings | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 buildings | cc |
| 5 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 palaces | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | palaces and buildings | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 4
drawings of castles and towers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drawings | drawing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 castles | case |
| 3 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 drawings | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 towers | cc |
| 5 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 drawings | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | castles | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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