Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

Which object did the child bear, and in what condition was it after the rain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, be · To what, where: child bear, condition

This is exam question 2 of lesson 970 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy night, a wet boy named Cupid, a shot straight to the poet's heart» 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	6 bear	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bear	compound
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rain	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rain	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 condition	case
10	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	11 condition	det
11	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rain	obl
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rain	cop
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 was	obj
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 rain	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rain	det
16	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the child bear					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Eventuality
2	is	past				what condition	after the rain		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

A bow and quiver, all the colours bleeding into one another

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bow	det
2	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 quiver	cc
4	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bow	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 colours	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 colours	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 colours	det
8	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bow	conj
9	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 colours	acl
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 bleeding	obl
12	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 one	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleed	gerund	all colours not said here					into one	vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into one=Location

Option 2

A quiver, its arrows soaked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 quiver	det
2	quiver	quiver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soaked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 arrows	punct
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arrows	nmod:poss
5	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 quiver	conj
6	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak	participle	a quiver and its arrows						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A bow, its colours run together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bow	det
2	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 run	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bow	punct
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 colours	nmod:poss
5	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	together	together	ADV	_	6 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	a bow					together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

A bundle of arrows and a bow, with paint running down the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bundle	det
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 arrows	case
4	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bundle	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bow	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bow	det
7	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bundle	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 paint	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 paint	case
10	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bundle	conj
11	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 paint	acl
12	down	down	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run down	gerund	paint not said here	the wood					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Trajectory

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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