Exam question 3 · pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes…

Specify the time by which the woven cloth was required to be completed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, time · What happens: specify, weave, require, complete · To what, where: woven cloth

This is exam question 3 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 required	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cloth	det
7	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cloth	amod
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 required	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 required	aux:pass
10	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 time	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	13 completed	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 completed	aux:pass
13	completed	complete	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 required	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here		time	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	weave	participle				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	require	past · passive	the time	the woven cloth		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	complete	to-infinitive · passive	the time not said here			vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»

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

By the time the moon came up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the moon				time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Before the bells rang out at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	SCONJ	_	4 rang	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bells	det
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rang	nsubj
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 rang	compound:prt
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring out	past	the bells				night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dawn	dawn	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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