Exam question 3 · Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear…

Which creature first addressed the youth audibly within the castle chamber?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: address · To what, where: youth

This is exam question 3 of lesson 103 «Grimm's Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 6: the youth fights the cats and the wild bed in the castle» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 addressed	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 addressed	advmod
4	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 addressed	obj
7	audibly	audibly	ADV	_	4 addressed	advmod
8	within	within	ADP	_	11 chamber	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chamber	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chamber	compound
11	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 addressed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 addressed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	address	past	which creature	the youth				within the castle chamber; audibly, first property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Destination

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

A wagoner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A host

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A black dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A black cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cat	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cat	amod
3	cat	cat	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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