Exam question 1 · West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is cr…

From whom did Manus receive the enchanted cloth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Manus · What happens: receive, enchant · To what, where: enchanted cloth

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1160 «West Highland Tales, Pinkel the Thief, part 1: Manus is crowned by a lion; Pinkel escapes a witch» 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 receive	obl
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 receive	aux
4	Manus	Manus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 receive	nsubj
5	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cloth	det
7	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cloth	amod
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 receive	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 receive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past · do-support	Manus	the enchanted cloth					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme from whom=Source
2	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

From the armourer in his house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 armourer	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 armourer	det
3	armourer	armourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 house	nmod:poss
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 armourer	nmod

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

Option 2

From the armourer's wife who lived in the house across the bay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	5 wife	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 armourer	det
3	armourer	armourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wife	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 armourer	case
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wife	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 bay	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bay	det
13	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the armourer's wife			the house		across the bay	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

Option 3

From the smith in his forge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 smith	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 smith	det
3	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 forge	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 forge	nmod:poss
6	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smith	nmod

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

Option 4

From the old armourer in his house by the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 armourer	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 armourer	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 armourer	amod
4	armourer	armourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 armourer	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 armourer	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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