Exam question 3 · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…

Which creature did the wolverine first request to repair his torn garment?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: do, repair, tear · To what, where: wolverine first request, torn garment

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1226 «Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolverine tricks a bear up a tree after a rock, lightning and a torn coat» 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	7 request	det
5	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 request	compound
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 request	amod
7	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 repair	mark
9	repair	repair	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 request	acl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 garment	nmod:poss
11	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 garment	amod
12	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 repair	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which creature	the wolverine first request	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	repair	to-infinitive	which creature not said here	creature's torn garment	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent garment=Patient
3	tear	participle			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

His brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mouse	det
2	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The sister the owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sister	det
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 owl	det
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sister	obj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His sister the frog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sister	nmod:poss
2	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frog	det
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sister	obj

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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