Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…
With reference to the text, what period of time did the mouse-king stipulate for the preparation of the soup?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mouse king · What happens: stipulate, prepare · To what, where: soup
This is exam question 1 of lesson 989 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1: four mice set out to learn how to make soup, and one of them meets elves at a Maypole dance» 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 reference | case |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stipulate | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 text | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 text | det |
| 5 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reference | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 did | obj |
| 8 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 period | nmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stipulate | aux |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 13 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 king | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 mouse | punct |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stipulate | nsubj |
| 16 | stipulate | stipulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 preparation | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 preparation | det |
| 19 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stipulate | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 soup | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 soup | det |
| 22 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 preparation | nmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 stipulate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stipulate | past · do-support | the mouse king | with reference to the text; for the preparation of the soup | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prepare | the soup | nom preparation «act transitive»: of=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
a year and a day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 day | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 year | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a month and a half
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 month | det |
| 2 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 half | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 half | det |
| 5 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 2 month | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
three long winters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 winters | nummod |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 winters | amod |
| 3 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
one night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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