Exam question 1 · Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases A…

Which object did the Stalo mother employ to dispatch her victims?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, dispatch · To what, where: Stalo mother employ, victims

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1194 «Lapland Tales, Andras Baive, part 60: the bailiff chases Andras, who outwits him with reindeer magic and a daring leap» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 employ	det
5	Stalo	Stalo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 employ	compound
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	compound
7	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 dispatch	mark
9	dispatch	dispatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 employ	acl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 victims	nmod:poss
11	victims	victim	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 dispatch	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the Stalo mother employ					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	dispatch	to-infinitive	which object not said here	object's victims					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=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

A knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

An iron cane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cane	det
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cane	compound
3	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A sharp spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A wooden club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 club	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 club	amod
3	club	club	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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