Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: gra…

What did the storm attach to the bell-pull of the young lecture-goer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: storm · What happens: attach, pull · To what, where: young lecture goer

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 attach	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 attach	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attach	nsubj
5	attach	attach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 pull	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pull	det
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pull	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 bell	punct
10	pull	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 attach	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	16 goer	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 goer	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 goer	amod
14	lecture	lecture	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 goer	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 lecture	punct
16	goer	goer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pull	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 attach	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attach	past · do-support	the storm					to the bell pull of the young lecture goer	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent what=Patient to pull=Co-Patient
2	pull			the young lecture goer					nom pull «act transitive»: of=patient

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

a bird's nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nest	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bird	case
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a fox's skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fox	case
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a sock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sock	det
2	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a fox's tail hung from a wire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fox	case
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	nsubj
5	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 wire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wire	det
8	wire	wire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	a fox's tail			a wire			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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