Exam question 2 · Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: gra…

Which object did the gale remove from the barber's premises?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, barber · What happens: remove, premise · To what, where: premises

This is exam question 2 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remove	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 remove	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gale	det
5	gale	gale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remove	nsubj
6	remove	remove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 premises	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 barber	det
9	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 premises	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 barber	case
11	premises	premise	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 remove	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 remove	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	past · do-support	which object			the barber's premises			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from premise=Source
2	premise		the barber						nom premise «communication transitive»: 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

the tin bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowl	compound
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the brazen dish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dish	det
2	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dish	amod
3	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the brass pan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pan	det
2	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pan	compound
3	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the barber's brazen dish from the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barber	det
2	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dish	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 barber	case
4	brazen	brazen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dish	amod
5	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 window	det
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dish	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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