Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…
Which instrument does the swineherd make to play all the waltzes, galops and polkas known in the world?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: instrument, swineherd · What happens: do, make, play, galop, know · To what, where: waltzes, polkas, world
This is exam question 2 of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» 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 instrument | det |
| 2 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 swineherd | det |
| 5 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 play | mark |
| 8 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 waltzes | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waltzes | det |
| 11 | waltzes | waltz | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 play | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 galops | punct |
| 13 | galops | galop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 polkas | cc |
| 15 | polkas | polka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 galops | conj |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 polkas | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | which instrument | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | present | the swineherd | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | the swineherd not said here | all waltzes | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent waltz=Theme | ||||
| 4 | galop | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | know | participle | polkas not said here | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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 right answer
a rattle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rattle | det |
| 2 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a barrel organ that plays all the world's dances
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 organ | det |
| 2 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 organ | compound |
| 3 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 plays | nsubj |
| 5 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 organ | acl:relcl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 dances | det:predet |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dances | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 world | case |
| 10 | dances | dance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plays | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | a barrel organ | the world's dances | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | the world | nom dance «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
a fiddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fiddle | det |
| 2 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a music box with a tiny crank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 box | det |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 box | compound |
| 3 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 crank | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 crank | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crank | amod |
| 7 | crank | crank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 box | 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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