Exam question 1 · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

Which object did Walter cast aside during his precipitate flight?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: cast

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cast	aux
4	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cast	nsubj
5	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	aside	aside	ADV	_	5 cast	advmod
7	during	during	ADP	_	10 flight	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 flight	nmod:poss
9	precipitate	precipitate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flight	compound
10	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cast	past · do-support	which object				during Walter's precipitate flight	aside property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: 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

His drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 drum	nmod:poss
2	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

His satchel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 satchel	nmod:poss
2	satchel	satchel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	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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