Exam question 1 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

Which creature did the youths land on the bank of the pool?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature, youths · What happens: do, land · To what, where: bank

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	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	5 youths	det
5	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 land	nsubj
6	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bank	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bank	det
9	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 land	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 pool	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pool	det
12	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bank	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which creature						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	land	present	the youths			the bank of the pool			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on bank=Destination

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 mother of the swan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mother	det
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 swan	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swan	det
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mother	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the cub of the Bunyip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cub	det
2	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Bunyip	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Bunyip	det
5	Bunyip	bunyip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cub	nmod

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

Option 3

a crocodile

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the calf of a kangaroo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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