Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the…

Upon what object did the youth first apply mud in order to mislead the shepherd?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, youth · What happens: do, apply, mislead · To what, where: mud, shepherd

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1278 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shifty Lad, part 3: tricks on the shepherd, then the Black Rogue hangs» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 apply	nsubj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 apply	advmod
8	apply	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 apply	obj
10	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 mislead	mark
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 in	fixed
12	to	to	PART	_	13 mislead	mark
13	mislead	mislead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 apply	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shepherd	det
15	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mislead	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	object			tree rules
2	apply	present	the youth	mud	first property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Theme
3	mislead	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	the shepherd		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Patient

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

a sock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sock	det
2	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a boot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boot	det
2	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 shoe	det
2	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hat	det
2	hat	hat	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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