Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 1…
According to the narrative, in which compass direction did the first traveller's vessel proceed upon departure?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: compass direction · What happens: accord, do, proceed · To what, where: vessel
This is exam question 2 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 narrative | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 narrative | det |
| 4 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 proceed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 which | case |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 did | obl |
| 8 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 direction | compound |
| 9 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 proceed | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 traveller | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 traveller | amod |
| 13 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 vessel | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 traveller | case |
| 15 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 did | obj |
| 16 | proceed | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 departure | case |
| 18 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 proceed | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 proceed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | compass direction | the first traveller's vessel | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | proceed | present | accord the narrative; upon departure | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
north-east along the rocky coast of the island
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 east | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 north | punct |
| 3 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 coast | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 coast | det |
| 6 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 coast | amod |
| 7 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 east | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 island | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coast | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
south
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | south | south | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | north | north | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
toward the northern shore of the distant lake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 4 shore | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shore | det |
| 3 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shore | amod |
| 4 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 7 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lake | amod |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shore | nmod |
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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