Exam question 2 · pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes…

Identify the direction toward which the maiden turned in order to whiten the black yarn.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, maiden · What happens: identify, turn, whiten · To what, where: direction, order, black yarn

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1151 «pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes in the sieve, cats weave, black casket» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 direction	det
3	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	toward	toward	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 turned	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maiden	det
7	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 direction	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 whiten	mark
12	whiten	whiten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 turned	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 yarn	det
14	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 yarn	amod
15	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whiten	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the direction			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme
2	turn	past	the maiden		order	toward the direction	tree rules
3	whiten	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here	the black yarn			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent yarn=Patient

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

West

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	West	west	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

East

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	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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