Exam question 2 · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…

In accordance with the text, to what fixed object was the white hen secured?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: accordance · What happens: fix, be, secure · To what, where: object, white hen

This is exam question 2 of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 accordance	case
2	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hen	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accordance	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fixed	punct
7	to	to	SCONJ	_	9 fixed	mark
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 fixed	nsubj
9	fixed	fix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 accordance	acl
10	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fixed	obj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hen	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hen	det
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hen	amod
14	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hen	acl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 hen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fix	past	accordance with the text	object	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent object=Patient
2	is a	past	accordance with the text	the white hen	tree rules
3	secure	participle		the white hen not said here	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 table	det
2	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A bench

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bench	det
2	bench	bench	NOUN	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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