Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…
Which of the following is the name engraved upon the brass plate found during the excavation of the foundation?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: foundation · What happens: follow, be, engrave, find, excavate · To what, where: name, brass plate
This is exam question 1 of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 name | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 name | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 name | case |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 name | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 name | det |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | engraved | engrave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 name | acl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 plate | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plate | det |
| 11 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plate | compound |
| 12 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 engraved | obl |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 plate | acl |
| 14 | during | during | ADP | _ | 16 excavation | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 excavation | det |
| 16 | excavation | excavation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 foundation | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 foundation | det |
| 19 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 excavation | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | of the name | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | engrave | participle | the name not said here | the brass plate | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon plate=Destination | ||||
| 4 | find | participle | the brass plate not said here | during the excavation of the foundation | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | excavate | the foundation | nom excavation «act intransitive»: of=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
Grubbe of the old manor house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grubbe | Grubbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 house | amod |
| 5 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 house | compound |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Grubbe | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Grubbe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grubbe | Grubbe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ulfeldt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ulfeldt | Ulfeldt | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Brahe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brahe | Brahe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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