Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170:…
Which object did the youngest son desire, and from which source was it obtained?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, obtain · To what, where: youngest son desire, source
This is exam question 2 of lesson 959 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170: the old willow, the flute and the proud party» 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 | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 desire | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 desire | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 desire | compound |
| 7 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 obtained | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 obtained | cc |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 12 source | det |
| 12 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 obtained | aux:pass |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the youngest son desire | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | obtain | past · passive | which source | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |
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 toy horn, from a rowan tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horn | det |
| 2 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horn | compound |
| 3 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tree | punct |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 7 | rowan | rowan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tree | compound |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 horn | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A flute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flute | det |
| 2 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A drum, bought at a fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 drum | det |
| 2 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bought | punct |
| 4 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 drum | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 fair | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fair | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | participle | a drum not said here | a fair | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A flute, cut from a willow branch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flute | det |
| 2 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 flute | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 branch | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 branch | det |
| 7 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 branch | compound |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | participle | a flute not said here | a willow branch | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from branch=Location |
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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