Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…

Which character is described as having been "broken into three pieces" after falling from the table?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: describe, have, break, be, fall · To what, where: character, table

This is exam question 1 of lesson 974 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep: the china lovers flee the table, and the old Chinaman is broken and riveted» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	12 pieces	case
6	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 pieces	amod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 pieces	cop
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 pieces	punct
9	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pieces	amod
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 pieces	case
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 pieces	nummod
12	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 described	obl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 pieces	punct
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 falling	mark
15	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 described	advcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 table	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 table	det
18	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 falling	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive	which character			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	have	gerund				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	break in a quote	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is in a quote	participle			as having broken three pieces	tree rules
5	fall	gerund		the table		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from table=Initial_Location

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 sweep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the shepherdess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the old Chinaman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Chinaman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Chinaman	amod
3	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the Major-general

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 general	det
2	Major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 general	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Major	punct
4	general	general	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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