Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…
Which figure does the narrator associate with the lecturer's appearance and manner?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: figure · What happens: do · To what, where: narrator associate
This is exam question 4 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 figure | det |
| 2 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 associate | det |
| 5 | narrator | narrator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 associate | compound |
| 6 | associate | associate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 appearance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lecturer | det |
| 9 | lecturer | lecturer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 lecturer | case |
| 11 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 manner | cc |
| 13 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appearance | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | which figure | the narrator associate | with the lecturer's appearance and manner | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent associate=Eventuality |
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 wandering scholar of the middle ages
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 scholar | det |
| 2 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 scholar | amod |
| 3 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ages | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ages | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ages | compound |
| 7 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 scholar | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
A visiting prince from a foreign court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | visiting | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 court | det |
| 6 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 court | amod |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | gerund | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
A dealer in magnetic instruments and wines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dealer | det |
| 2 | dealer | dealer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 instruments | case |
| 4 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 instruments | amod |
| 5 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dealer | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wines | cc |
| 7 | wines | wine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 instruments | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
One of the ancient deities in disguise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 deities | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deities | det |
| 4 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deities | amod |
| 5 | deities | deity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 disguise | case |
| 7 | disguise | disguise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deities | 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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