Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…

By whom was the offer of marriage made to the General?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, make · To what, where: offer, marriage

This is exam question 2 of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» 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 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 offer	obl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 offer	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 offer	det
5	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 marriage	case
7	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 offer	nmod
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 marriage	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 General	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 General	det
11	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl:agent
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the offer				of marriage	tree rules
2	make	participle		marriage not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=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

By Emily's old tutor here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 tutor	case
2	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tutor	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Emily	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tutor	amod
5	tutor	tutor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 tutor	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

By George, the porter's son, on his knees before the General

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 George	case
2	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 George	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 porter	det
5	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 porter	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knees	punct
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 knees	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knees	nmod:poss
11	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 son	appos
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 General	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 General	det
14	General	General	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 knees	nmod

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

Option 3

By the Count's own nephew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	6 nephew	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Count	det
3	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nephew	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Count	case
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nephew	amod
6	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

By George, the porter's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 George	case
2	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 George	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 porter	det
5	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 porter	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 George	appos

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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