Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 2…
Which of the following accurately states the qualities that the second mouse's grandmother identified as necessary for a poet?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grandmother · What happens: follow, state, identify · To what, where: qualities
This is exam question 2 of lesson 990 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 201: the elves' glittering maypole and feast, the violet staff and noisy kitchen, then the second mouse sets out to become a poet» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 states | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 states | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 states | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 states | nsubj |
| 5 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 6 states | advmod |
| 6 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 qualities | det |
| 8 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 states | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 identified | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mouse | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 mouse | amod |
| 12 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 mouse | case |
| 14 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 identified | nsubj |
| 15 | identified | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 qualities | acl:relcl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 necessary | case |
| 17 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 identified | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 poet | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 poet | det |
| 20 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 identified | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 states | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present | the qualities | accurately property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent quality=Topic | ||||
| 3 | identify | past | the second mouse's grandmother | the qualities | as necessary; for a poet | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme as necessary=Attribute |
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
Understanding, imagination, and feeling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding | understanding | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagination | punct |
| 3 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Understanding | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feeling | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 feeling | cc |
| 6 | feeling | feeling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Understanding | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Speed and strength
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 strength | cc |
| 3 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Speed | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Memory, practice, and a good voice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 practice | punct |
| 3 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Memory | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 voice | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 voice | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voice | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voice | amod |
| 8 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Memory | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Learning, beauty, and kindness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beauty | punct |
| 3 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Learning | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kindness | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kindness | cc |
| 6 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Learning | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/990-pg27200-part201/e2/