Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: gra…
Where did the storm deposit the sentry-house after displacing it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storm · What happens: deposit, displace · To what, where: sentry house, house
This is exam question 3 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 deposit | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deposit | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storm | det |
| 4 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deposit | nsubj |
| 5 | deposit | deposit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 7 | sentry | sentry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sentry | punct |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deposit | obj |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 displacing | mark |
| 11 | displacing | displace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 deposit | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 displacing | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 deposit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deposit | past · do-support | the storm | the sentry house | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | displace | gerund | the storm not said here | house | tree rules |
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 plasterer's doorway on the corner of the square
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plasterer | det |
| 2 | plasterer | plasterer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doorway | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 plasterer | case |
| 4 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 corner | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doorway | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 square | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 square | det |
| 10 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 corner | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the plasterer's doorway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plasterer | det |
| 2 | plasterer | plasterer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doorway | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 plasterer | case |
| 4 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the plasterer's doorway and the councillor's window recess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 plasterer | det |
| 2 | plasterer | plasterer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doorway | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 plasterer | case |
| 4 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 recess | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 councillor | det |
| 7 | councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recess | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 councillor | case |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 recess | compound |
| 10 | recess | recess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doorway | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recess | the councillor | nom recess «state transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
the councillor's window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 councillor | det |
| 2 | councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 window | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 councillor | case |
| 4 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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