Exam question 1 · Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 206: a mothe…

Which figure removes the infant from the mother's chamber during her brief slumber?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: figure · What happens: remove, slumber · To what, where: infant, chamber

This is exam question 1 of lesson 995 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of a Mother, part 206: a mother follows Death and pays a price» 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 figure	det
2	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 removes	nsubj
3	removes	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 infant	det
5	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 removes	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 chamber	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mother	det
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chamber	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 mother	case
10	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 removes	obl
11	during	during	ADP	_	14 slumber	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 slumber	nmod:poss
13	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 slumber	amod
14	slumber	slumber	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 removes	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 removes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remove	present	which figure	the infant		the mother's chamber	during figure's brief slumber		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent infant=Theme from chamber=Source
2	slumber		figure						nom slumber «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

Death, the tall man in a dark cape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Death	appos
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 cape	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cape	det
8	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cape	amod
9	cape	cape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod

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

Option 2

The old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Death, the old man in the horse-cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Death	appos
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 cloth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cloth	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cloth	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 horse	punct
10	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	nmod

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

Option 4

The gardener, a grey-bearded man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
5	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bearded	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grey	punct
7	bearded	bearded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gardener	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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