Exam question 4 · Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part…

What sound interrupted Jack as he filled his jacket with gold?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sound · What happens: interrupt, fill · To what, where: Jack, jacket

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1166 «Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part 1: three brothers find a castle of money, and Jack gets the last word» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 interrupted	nsubj
3	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 interrupted	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 filled	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 filled	nsubj
7	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 interrupted	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 jacket	nmod:poss
9	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 filled	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 filled	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 interrupted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	interrupt	past	what sound	Jack					tree rules
2	fill	past	sound	sound's jacket				with gold	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent jacket=Patient with gold=Instrument

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

a noise like thunder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 thunder	case
4	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noise	nmod

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

Option 2

a loud bang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bang	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bang	amod
3	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a shout

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a bell in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bell	det
2	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hall	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hall	det
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bell	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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