Exam question 4 · Andersen, Something, part 199: the critic reaches heaven's…

By whose plea was the gate opened for the critic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plea · What happens: be, open

This is exam question 4 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	By	by	ADP	_	6 gate	case
2	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	3 plea	nmod:poss
3	plea	plea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gate	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gate	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gate	det
6	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obl
7	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 critic	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 critic	det
10	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 opened	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 opened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the gate's plea					by the gate	tree rules
2	open	past						for the critic	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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

By the plea of the old critic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 plea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 plea	det
3	plea	plea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 critic	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 critic	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 critic	amod
7	critic	critic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plea	nmod

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

Option 2

By the master builder's word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	6 word	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 builder	det
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 builder	compound
4	builder	builder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 builder	case
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	word		the master builder						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

By that of the poor old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 that	nmod

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

Option 4

By that of the poor old woman who had warned the skaters on the ice

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 that	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 warned	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 warned	aux
10	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 woman	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 skaters	det
12	skaters	skater	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 warned	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ice	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ice	det
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past · perfect	the poor old woman	the skaters				on the ice	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent skater=Recipient on ice=Topic

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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