Exam question 3 · Andersen's novels, George and Emily, part 156: George draw…

Which description most accurately characterises the General's lady's diary?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: description · What happens: characteris · To what, where: diary

This is exam question 3 of lesson 945 «Andersen's novels, George and Emily, part 156: George draws Emily's castle and leaves for Rome» 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 description	det
2	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterises	nsubj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 characterises	advmod
5	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 General	det
7	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lady	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 General	case
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 diary	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 lady	case
11	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterises	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	which description	the General's lady's diary				accurately property	tree rules

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

A account of letters, dresses and gossip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 account	det
2	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 letters	case
4	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 account	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dresses	punct
6	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 letters	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gossip	cc
8	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 letters	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	account			letters and dresses and gossip					nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

A record of balls, visits and visiting cards, with a note on every guest's coat

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 record	det
2	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 balls	case
4	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 record	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 visits	punct
6	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balls	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cards	cc
8	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cards	amod
9	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balls	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 note	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 note	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 note	det
13	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 record	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	18 coat	case
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 guest	det
16	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 coat	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 guest	case
18	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 note	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	gerund							vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	record			balls and visits and visiting cards					nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3

A record of balls, visits, visiting cards and the dresses worn by each lady of the court

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 record	det
2	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 balls	case
4	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 record	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 visits	punct
6	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balls	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cards	punct
8	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cards	amod
9	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balls	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dresses	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dresses	det
12	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balls	conj
13	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 balls	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 lady	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 lady	det
16	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 worn	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 court	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 court	det
19	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lady	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	visit	gerund			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wear	participle	balls and visits and visiting cards and the dresses not said here	by each lady of the court	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
3	record		balls and visits and visiting cards and the dresses		nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A record of balls, visits and visiting cards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 record	det
2	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 balls	case
4	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 record	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 visits	punct
6	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balls	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cards	cc
8	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 cards	amod
9	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 balls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	gerund							vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	record			balls and visits and visiting cards					nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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