Exam question 1 · World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1:…

Which of the following accurately identifies the individual who was the eldest son of the poor knight?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: individual · What happens: follow, identify, be · To what, where: individual, eldest son

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1219 «World Tales, How Geirald The Coward Was Punished, part 1: two friends ride off, Rosald wins the fight, and Geirald takes the glory» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 identifies	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 identifies	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identifies	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 identifies	nsubj
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 identifies	advmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 individual	det
8	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 son	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 son	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 son	det
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 son	amod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 individual	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 knight	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 knight	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 knight	amod
17	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	identify	present		the individual	accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent individual=Theme
3	is a	past	the individual	the eldest son	of the poor knight	tree rules

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

Ivo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivo	Ivo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the eldest son of the neighbouring knight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 knight	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knight	det
6	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knight	amod
7	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 son	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Rosald

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Geirald

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	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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