Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sw…
By which route do the two figures leave the room in order to reach the rooftop?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two figures · What happens: do, leave, reach · To what, where: room, order, rooftop
This is exam question 2 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 route | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 route | det |
| 3 | route | route | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 leave | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 figures | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 figures | nummod |
| 7 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 leave | nsubj |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 order | case |
| 12 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 reach | mark |
| 14 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 leave | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rooftop | det |
| 16 | rooftop | rooftop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reach | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the two figures not said here | by which route | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | the two figures | the room | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent room=Theme in order=Location | |||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | the two figures not said here | the rooftop | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rooftop=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 · ← Mova's choice
the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the stove and the chimney
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stove | det |
| 2 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 chimney | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chimney | det |
| 5 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stove | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 window | det |
| 2 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the cupboard and the floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cupboard | det |
| 2 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 floor | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 floor | det |
| 5 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cupboard | conj |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/974-pg27200-part185/e2/