Exam question 1 · Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's…
Which brother perished when the tower he had constructed collapsed?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, tower · What happens: perish, construct, collapse · To what, where: tower
This is exam question 1 of lesson 988 «Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's gate, and old Margaret's burning bed saves the skaters» 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 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perished | nsubj |
| 3 | perished | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 collapsed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tower | det |
| 6 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collapsed | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 constructed | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 constructed | aux |
| 9 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 tower | acl:relcl |
| 10 | collapsed | collapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 perished | advcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 perished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | past | which brother | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | construct | past · perfect | brother | the tower not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Result | ||||
| 3 | collapse | participle | the tower | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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
The youngest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youngest | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The master builder, the architect
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 builder | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 builder | compound |
| 3 | builder | builder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 architect | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 architect | det |
| 6 | architect | architect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 builder | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The fourth brother, the genius
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 genius | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 genius | det |
| 6 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The eldest brother, the mason
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mason | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mason | det |
| 6 | mason | mason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | 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.
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