Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes ar…
Which animal is awarded the first prize for swiftness in running, according to the boundary post's method of counting?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swiftness, method · What happens: award, run, accord, count · To what, where: animal
This is exam question 1 of lesson 956 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, part 167: prizes are argued over, then poor Karen gets red shoes and is taken away» 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 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awarded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 awarded | aux:pass |
| 4 | awarded | award | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prize | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 prize | amod |
| 7 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awarded | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 swiftness | case |
| 9 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prize | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 running | mark |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 swiftness | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 method | punct |
| 13 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 method | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 according | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 post | det |
| 16 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 post | compound |
| 17 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 method | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 post | case |
| 19 | method | method | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 running | obl |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 counting | mark |
| 21 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 method | acl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 awarded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | award | present · passive | which animal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal prize=Theme | |||||
| 2 | run | gerund | swiftness not said here | accord the boundary post's method | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | count | gerund | the boundary post's method not said here | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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
The snail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 snail | det |
| 2 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The swallow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swallow | det |
| 2 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The fly, who claimed he overtook a hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fly | det |
| 2 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overtook | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 claimed | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 claimed | nsubj |
| 5 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fly | acl:relcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 overtook | nsubj |
| 7 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hare | det |
| 9 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overtook | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | past | the fly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | overtake | past | the fly | a hare | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | 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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