Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…
Which profession is attributed to the spectator in black who attended the performance?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: attribute, attend · To what, where: profession, black, performance
This is exam question 2 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 profession | det |
| 2 | profession | profession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attributed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 attributed | aux:pass |
| 4 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 spectator | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spectator | det |
| 7 | spectator | spectator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 attributed | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 black | case |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 attributed | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 attended | nsubj |
| 11 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 attributed | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 performance | det |
| 13 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attended | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 attributed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | present · passive | which profession | black | to the spectator | tree rules | |||
| 2 | attend | past | the performance | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme performance=Goal |
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
Military service in the royal garrison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 service | amod |
| 2 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garrison | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garrison | det |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garrison | amod |
| 6 | garrison | garrison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 service | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Commercial trade in livestock and horses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Commercial | commercial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 trade | amod |
| 2 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 livestock | case |
| 4 | livestock | livestock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trade | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 horses | cc |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trade | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Membership of the Polytechnic Institution in Copenhagen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Membership | membership | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Institution | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Institution | det |
| 4 | Polytechnic | Polytechnic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Institution | compound |
| 5 | Institution | institution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Membership | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Copenhagen | case |
| 7 | Copenhagen | Copenhagen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Institution | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Clerical office within the parish of Slagelse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clerical | clerical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 office | amod |
| 2 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | within | within | ADP | _ | 5 parish | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 parish | det |
| 5 | parish | parish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 office | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Slagelse | case |
| 7 | Slagelse | Slagelse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 parish | 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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