Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

What is the approximate age of the boy who commenced the mocking song, as perceived by the young storks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: approximate age, boy · What happens: be, commence, perceive · To what, where: mocking song

This is exam question 3 of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 age	det
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 age	amod
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 boy	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 age	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 commenced	nsubj
10	commenced	commence	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boy	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 song	det
12	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 song	compound
13	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 commenced	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 perceived	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 perceived	mark
16	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 commenced	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 storks	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 storks	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 storks	amod
20	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 perceived	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the approximate age of the boy			tree rules
2	commence	past	the boy	the mocking song		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality
3	perceive	participle	the boy not said here		by the young storks	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Six years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3

Ten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

Five years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 years	nummod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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