Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…

Which location is named as the setting of the puppet-man's first performance in this passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: puppet man · What happens: name, perform · To what, where: location, passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» 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 location	det
2	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 named	aux:pass
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 setting	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 setting	det
7	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 named	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	15 performance	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
10	puppet	puppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 puppet	punct
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 performance	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 man	case
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 performance	amod
15	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 setting	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 passage	case
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 passage	det
18	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 performance	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 named	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	present · passive		which location				as the setting of the puppet man's first performance in this passage	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as setting=Attribute
2	perform		the puppet man			this passage			nom performance «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

The stable yard of an inn at Roskilde

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 yard	det
2	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 yard	amod
3	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 inn	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 inn	det
6	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yard	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Roskilde	case
8	Roskilde	Roskilde	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 inn	nmod

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

Option 2

The municipal hall of the city of Copenhagen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hall	det
2	municipal	municipal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hall	amod
3	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hall	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Copenhagen	case
8	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 city	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The hall of the posting-house at Slagelse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hall	det
2	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 house	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
5	posting	posting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 house	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 posting	punct
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hall	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 Slagelse	case
9	Slagelse	Slagelse	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 house	nmod

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

Option 4

The schoolroom of a provincial academy at Odense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 schoolroom	det
2	schoolroom	schoolroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 academy	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 academy	det
5	provincial	provincial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 academy	amod
6	academy	academy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 schoolroom	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 Odense	case
8	Odense	Odense	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 academy	nmod

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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