Exam question 2 · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

Which description accurately characterises Else's appearance?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: description · What happens: characteris · To what, where: appearance

This is exam question 2 of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» 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 description	det
2	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	nsubj
3	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	4 characterises	advmod
4	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Else	Else	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 appearance	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Else	case
7	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	which description	Else's appearance				accurately property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

She was pale, fair, and flaxen-haired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pale	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pale	cop
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fair	punct
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pale	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 haired	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 haired	cc
8	flaxen	flaxen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 haired	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 flaxen	punct
10	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pale	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	She	pale property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here		tree rules
3	be		She not said here		tree rules

Option 2

She was tall, dark, and freckled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tall	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tall	cop
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tall	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 freckled	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 freckled	cc
8	freckled	freckle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 tall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	She	tall property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here		tree rules
3	freckle	participle	She not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

She was fair but very thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fair	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 thin	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 thin	advmod
6	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fair	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					fair property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here						tree rules

Option 4

She was flaxen-haired and tall, with a dark coat and worn leather boots

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 haired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 haired	cop
3	flaxen	flaxen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 haired	amod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 flaxen	punct
5	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tall	cc
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 haired	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 coat	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 coat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 coat	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 coat	amod
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 haired	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 boots	cc
14	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boots	amod
15	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 boots	compound
16	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 coat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					haired property	tree rules
2	be		She not said here						tree rules

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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