Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: gra…

Which garments did the narrator's grandfather wear in his childhood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrator · What happens: garment, do, wear · To what, where: grandfather wear, childhood

This is exam question 1 of lesson 994 «Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: grandpa recalls the shield parade, then the gale tears signs from their places» 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	2 garments	nsubj
2	garments	garment	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 garments	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrator	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wear	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 narrator	case
7	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wear	compound
8	wear	wear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 childhood	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 childhood	nmod:poss
11	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 garments	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	garment	present				tree rules
2	do	past		the narrator's grandfather wear	his childhood	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wear=Eventuality
3	wear		the narrator			nom wear «state intransitive»: poss=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

red breeches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 breeches	amod
2	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

white stockings and a black cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stockings	amod
2	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cap	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cap	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cap	amod
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stockings	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

red breeches and a red coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 breeches	amod
2	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 coat	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coat	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coat	amod
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breeches	conj

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

Option 4

blue breeches and a green coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 breeches	amod
2	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 coat	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 coat	det
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 coat	amod
6	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breeches	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.

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