Exam question 1 · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…

Which drink did the horse prescribe for Ian during his watch in the stable?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: horse · What happens: drink, prescribe · To what, where: stable

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 drink	nsubj
2	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 prescribe	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 prescribe	nsubj
6	prescribe	prescribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 drink	ccomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 Ian	case
8	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 prescribe	obl
9	during	during	ADP	_	11 watch	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 watch	nmod:poss
11	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 stable	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stable	det
14	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drink	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 drink	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	present				the stable	during horse's watch		tree rules
2	prescribe	past · do-support	the horse					for Ian	tree rules

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

whey and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whey	whey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 water	cc
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whey	conj

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

Option 2

only whey and cold spring water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	only	only	ADV	_	2 whey	advmod
2	whey	whey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 water	cc
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	compound
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whey	conj

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

Option 3

ale and bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bread	cc
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ale	conj

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

Option 4

whey and water with honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whey	whey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 water	cc
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whey	conj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 honey	case
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whey	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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