Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Saucy Boy, part 1: a stormy ni…

By what proper name is the figure who shot the poet designated in the tale?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: proper name, figure · What happens: be, shoot, designate · To what, where: figure, poet, tale

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 name	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 name	nsubj
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 name	amod
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 figure	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 figure	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 figure	det
7	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 shot	nsubj
9	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 figure	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 poet	det
11	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shot	obj
12	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 poet	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 tale	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tale	det
15	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 designated	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 figure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	proper name	the figure		tree rules
2	shoot	past	the figure	the poet		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poet=Theme
3	designate	participle		the poet not said here	the tale	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Edmund

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The mischievous child who claimed to be the god of love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
2	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 claimed	nsubj
5	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 child	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	9 god	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 god	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 god	det
9	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 claimed	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 love	case
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 god	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	claim speech: other	past	the mischievous child						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	to-infinitive		the god				of love	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cupid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The boy who called himself Cupid in the tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 boy	acl:relcl
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 called	obj
6	Cupid	Cupid	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tale	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tale	det
9	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	the boy	boy		the tale			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient

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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