Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serv…

To which location did the protagonist proceed in order to request employment in domestic service?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: protagonist · What happens: do, proceed, request · To what, where: order, employment, domestic service

This is exam question 1 of lesson 958 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serves the pastor's family, and dies at peace in church» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 protagonist	det
6	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proceed	nsubj
7	proceed	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 proceed	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 request	mark
11	request	request	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 proceed	advcl
12	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 request	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 service	case
14	domestic	domestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 service	amod
15	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 request	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past				to which location	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	proceed	present	the protagonist		order		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	request	to-infinitive	the protagonist not said here	employment	domestic service		vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent employment=Recipient

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 vicarage of the parish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 vicarage	det
2	vicarage	vicarage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 parish	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 parish	det
5	parish	parish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vicarage	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The large house of the pastor on the hill beyond the village green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 pastor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pastor	det
6	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 hill	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hill	det
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	nmod
10	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	12 village	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 village	det
12	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hill	nmod
13	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 village	amod

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

Option 3

The pastor's house and garden where the children played each day in the summer

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pastor	det
2	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 pastor	case
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 played	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 garden	cc
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 house	conj
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 played	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 played	nsubj
10	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 played	obl:unmarked
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 summer	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 summer	det
15	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the pastor's house and garden				day; summer		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The parsonage of the pastor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 parsonage	det
2	parsonage	parsonage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pastor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pastor	det
5	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parsonage	nmod

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

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