Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow t…

In which location did the shadow state that it acquired the status of a man?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: state · What happens: do, acquire · To what, where: shadow state, location, status

This is exam question 1 of lesson 972 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow tells how it became a man, then invites the scholar on a journey» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 state	det
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 state	compound
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 acquired	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 acquired	nsubj
10	acquired	acquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 status	det
12	status	status	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 acquired	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 man	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 status	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the shadow state		which location			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent state=Eventuality
2	acquire	past	state	the status of a man					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset status=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

The palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 palace	det
2	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The chamber next to the mint's library

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chamber	det
2	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	next	next	ADV	_	2 chamber	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 library	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mint	det
6	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 library	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 mint	case
8	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 next	obl

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The hallway joining the court of verse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hallway	det
2	hallway	hallway	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	joining	join	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hallway	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 court	det
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 joining	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 verse	case
7	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 court	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join	gerund	the hallway not said here	the court of verse					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The ante-room adjoining the court of poetry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
2	ante	ante	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ante	punct
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	adjoining	adjoin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 room	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 court	det
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 adjoining	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 poetry	case
9	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 court	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	adjoin	gerund	the ante room not said here	the court of poetry					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme court=Co-Theme

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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