Exam question 4 · Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Wa…
At what season did the events of this part take place?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: season, events · What happens: do, take · To what, where: place
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1287 «Hemgard Tales, How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves, part 12: Walter sets off alone into the wood with his toys» 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | season | season | 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 events | det |
| 6 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 take | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 part | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 part | det |
| 9 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 events | nmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | ccomp |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | season | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | the events of this part | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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 · ← Mova's choice
In early summer, after the harvest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 summer | case |
| 2 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 summer | amod |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 summer | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 harvest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 harvest | det |
| 7 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summer | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
In spring, shortly before Midsummer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spring | case |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Midsummer | punct |
| 4 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 6 Midsummer | advmod |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 Midsummer | case |
| 6 | Midsummer | Midsummer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spring | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In autumn, after harvest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 autumn | case |
| 2 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 autumn | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 harvest | case |
| 5 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 autumn | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
During the cold winter months
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | During | during | ADP | _ | 5 months | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 months | det |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 months | amod |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 months | compound |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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