Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes: Karen repents, serv…
Which object did the angel carry in place of the sharp sword?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: carry · To what, where: place
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carry | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 angel | det |
| 5 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sword | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sword | det |
| 11 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sword | amod |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · do-support | which object | place of the sharp sword | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
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
A bunch of red flowers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bunch | det |
| 2 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 flowers | case |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 flowers | amod |
| 5 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bunch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A silver cup of wine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cup | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cup | amod |
| 3 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wine | case |
| 5 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cup | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A green branch bearing roses
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 roses | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 roses | amod |
| 3 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bearing | compound |
| 4 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 roses | compound |
| 5 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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