Exam question 1 · Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl fal…

To what location did the old woman direct the girl in order to obtain employment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman · What happens: direct, obtain · To what, where: girl, employment

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 direct	obl
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 direct	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 direct	nsubj
8	direct	direct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 direct	obj
11	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 obtain	mark
12	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 in	fixed
13	to	to	PART	_	14 obtain	mark
14	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 direct	advcl
15	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 obtain	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 direct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	direct	past · do-support	the old woman	the girl					vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent girl=Theme
2	obtain	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	employment					vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset employment=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 · ← Mova's choice

a shop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the farmhouse near the old mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmhouse	det
2	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	6 mill	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mill	amod
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 farmhouse	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a farm at a little distance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 farm	det
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 distance	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 distance	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distance	amod
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 farm	nmod

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

Option 4

the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mill	det
2	mill	mill	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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