Exam question 1 · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

Which creature was described as the lion's younger sibling in the first narrative?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe · To what, where: creature

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	10 sibling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sibling	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 lion	case
9	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 sibling	amod
10	sibling	sibling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 narrative	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 narrative	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 narrative	amod
14	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sibling	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	past · passive		which creature				as the lion's younger sibling in the first narrative	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as sibling=Attribute

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 lion's little brother who lived in the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lion	case
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 lived	nsubj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brother	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the lion's little brother			the trees			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

Option 2

A small wild cat that lived in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cat	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cat	amod
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cat	amod
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cat	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a small wild cat			the forest			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A wild cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A young lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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