Exam question 3 · Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's…

What did the angel affirm concerning the critic's contribution?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: angel, critic · What happens: do, affirm, concern, contribute · To what, where: contribution

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 angel	det
4	angel	angel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 affirm	nsubj
5	affirm	affirm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 affirm	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 critic	det
8	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 contribution	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 critic	case
10	contribution	contribution	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 concerning	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	affirm	present	the angel		vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	concern	gerund	the angel not said here	the critic's contribution	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus contribution=Experiencer
4	contribute		the critic		nom contribution «act 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

That he had accomplished nothing whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 nothing	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 accomplished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 accomplished	aux
4	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 nothing	amod
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	5 nothing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accomplish	past · perfect	he						vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

That he had done very little good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	nsubj:pass
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 done	obl
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 done	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect · passive		That				little obl; good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

He built nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	He	nothing					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Product

Option 4

Nothing done

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	participle							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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