Exam question 2 · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

To what animal did the pursuing creature ultimately prove to belong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal, pursuing creature · What happens: do, pursue, prove, belong · To what, where: pursuing creature

This is exam question 2 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	animal	animal	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	7 creature	det
6	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 creature	amod
7	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	9 prove	advmod
9	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 creature	acl:relcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 belong	mark
11	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 prove	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	animal	the pursuing creature		tree rules
2	pursue	gerund				vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	prove	present	the pursuing creature not said here		ultimately property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	belong	to-infinitive	the pursuing creature not said here			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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

Wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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