Exam question 4 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, par…

To which province did the two riders depart upon leaving the fortress?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two riders · What happens: do, depart, leave · To what, where: fortress

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1075 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan and the Hag of the Mill, part 43: Mongan turns the hag into a lovely girl and tricks Branduv into swapping wives» 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	To	to	ADP	_	3 province	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 province	det
3	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 riders	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 riders	nummod
7	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 depart	nsubj
8	depart	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	10 leaving	mark
10	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 depart	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fortress	det
12	fortress	fortress	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leaving	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			to which province	tree rules
2	depart	present	the two riders			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	leave	gerund	the two riders not said here	the fortress		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortress=Theme

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

north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	north	north	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Ulster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Leinster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leinster	Leinster	PROPN	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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