Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…
To what did the author attribute the shirt collar's transformation?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, transform · To what, where: author attribute, shirt collar
This is exam question 3 of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» 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 | To | to | SCONJ | _ | 3 did | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 attribute | det |
| 5 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attribute | compound |
| 6 | attribute | attribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 collar | det |
| 8 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 collar | compound |
| 9 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 transformation | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 collar | case |
| 11 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the author attribute | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | transform | the shirt collar | nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=patient |
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 right answer
His boastful and untruthful speech
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 speech | nmod:poss |
| 2 | boastful | boastful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speech | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 untruthful | cc |
| 4 | untruthful | untruthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boastful | conj |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak | His = he | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
His noisy and tiresome boasting habit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 habit | nmod:poss |
| 2 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 habit | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tiresome | cc |
| 4 | tiresome | tiresome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 noisy | conj |
| 5 | boasting | boasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 habit | compound |
| 6 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
His silly, boastful manner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 manner | nmod:poss |
| 2 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 manner | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 silly | punct |
| 4 | boastful | boastful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 manner | amod |
| 5 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His constant boastful and untruthful speech to the garter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 speech | nmod:poss |
| 2 | constant | constant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speech | amod |
| 3 | boastful | boastful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speech | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 untruthful | cc |
| 5 | untruthful | untruthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boastful | conj |
| 6 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 garter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 garter | det |
| 9 | garter | garter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 speech | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak | His = he | to the garter | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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