Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks f…

Which creature was the principal adversary of the monkey within the forest, according to the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: creature · What happens: be, accord · To what, where: principal adversary

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1260 «Indian Fairy Tales, Jack-in-the-Green: the monkey sticks fast to a waxen figure» 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 adversary	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 adversary	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 adversary	det
5	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 adversary	amod
6	adversary	adversary	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 monkey	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 monkey	det
9	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adversary	nmod
10	within	within	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 monkey	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 narrative	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 narrative	case
15	to	to	ADP	_	14 according	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 narrative	det
17	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adversary	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 adversary	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which creature	the principal adversary and the narrative				of the monkey within the forest	tree rules
2	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

the puma

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind 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 4

the tiger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	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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