Exam question 1 · Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats se…
Which creature does the wolverine deceive into remaining motionless?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: creature · What happens: deceive, remain
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1227 «Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats seek the greatest husband» 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 | 6 deceive | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deceive | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolverine | det |
| 5 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deceive | nsubj |
| 6 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 8 remaining | mark |
| 8 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 deceive | advcl |
| 9 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 remaining | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 deceive | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deceive | present · do-support | which creature | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | remain | gerund | which creature not said here | motionless property | vn exist-47.1 «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
the elk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 elk | det |
| 2 | elk | elk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the cub
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 |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the bear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | 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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