Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, part 183: the shadow t…

Which personage first perceived that the newcomer lacked a shadow?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: personage, newcomer · What happens: perceive, lack · To what, where: shadow

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 personage	det
2	personage	personage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 perceived	advmod
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 lacked	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 newcomer	det
7	newcomer	newcomer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lacked	nsubj
8	lacked	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shadow	det
10	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lacked	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 perceived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	which personage					first property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lack	past	the newcomer	a shadow					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

A beautiful servant at the baths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 servant	det
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 servant	amod
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 baths	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baths	det
6	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 servant	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A beautiful princess at the baths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 princess	det
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 princess	amod
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 baths	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baths	det
6	baths	bath	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 princess	nmod

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

Option 3

The princess at the old palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 palace	amod
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 princess	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The princess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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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