Exam question 4 · West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian ou…

What is the precise reward which the raven requests from Ian upon the completion of his undertaking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: raven · What happens: be, request, complete, undertake · To what, where: precise reward, Ian, undertaking

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1141 «West Highland Tales, Ian the Soldier's Son, part 7: Ian outwits the raven and slays the second giant» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reward	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reward	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reward	det
4	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reward	amod
5	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 requests	obj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 raven	det
8	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 requests	nsubj
9	requests	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reward	acl:relcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 Ian	case
11	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 requests	obl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 completion	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 completion	det
14	completion	completion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 requests	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 undertaking	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 undertaking	nmod:poss
17	undertaking	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 completion	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reward	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the precise reward			tree rules
2	request	present	the raven	the precise reward	Ian	upon the completion of raven's undertaking	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Recipient
3	complete			raven's undertaking			nom completion «act transitive»: of=patient
4	undertake		raven				nom undertaking «act 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

A piece of tobacco

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 tobacco	case
4	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

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

Option 2

A cup of wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wine	case
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cup	nmod

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

Option 3

Tobacco

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A piece of bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bread	case
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	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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