Exam question 1 · Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the ri…

State the name by which the hero, in his own words, describes his rank beside the other giants.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, his · What happens: state, describe, word · To what, where: name, rank

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1136 «Old Africa, Makoma, part 2: Makoma beats giants and the river spirit, then is sent to find Sakatirina» 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 name	det
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 hero	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 hero	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hero	det
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 words	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 words	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 words	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hero	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 describes	punct
14	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 State	parataxis
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 rank	nmod:poss
16	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 describes	obj
17	beside	beside	ADP	_	20 giants	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giants	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 giants	amod
20	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 describes	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the name	by the hero and his own words	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	describe	present		his rank	beside the other giants	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent rank=Theme
3	word		his = he			nom word «communication transitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

"greater"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 greater	punct
2	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 greater	punct

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

Option 2

"the greatest of all"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 greatest	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 greatest	det
3	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 greatest	obl
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 greatest	punct

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

Option 3

"taller"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 taller	punct
2	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 taller	punct

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

Option 4

"lesser"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lesser	punct
2	lesser	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 lesser	punct

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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