Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a b…

Upon what surface did the master builder and his bride perform their dance?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: surface, bride, their · What happens: do, perform, dance · To what, where: master builder, dance

This is exam question 4 of lesson 987 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snowdrop: a flower kept in a book, five brothers, and a street that builds a house» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 builder	det
6	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 builder	compound
7	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 perform	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bride	nmod:poss
10	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perform	nsubj
11	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dance	nmod:poss
13	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 perform	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	surface	the master builder	tree rules
2	perform	present	surface's bride	their dance	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme
3	dance		their = they		nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 right answer

A floor covered with lime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 floor	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 lime	case
5	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		a floor not said here				with lime	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lime=Theme

Option 2

Stone tiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tiles	compound
2	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Bare earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 earth	amod
2	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A floor covered with dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 floor	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 dust	case
5	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	participle		a floor not said here				with dust	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dust=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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