Exam question 2 · Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sai…

Which animal did the text describe as wagging its tail upon perceiving Little Lasse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal, text · What happens: do, describe, wag, perceive · To what, where: tail, Little Lasse

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1299 «Topelius Tales, Little Lasse, part 24: Lasse dreams of sailing the world, wakes in his boat, and Moti is robbed at an inn» 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 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describe	nsubj
6	describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 wagging	mark
8	wagging	wag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 describe	advcl
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wagging	obj
11	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	12 perceiving	mark
12	perceiving	perceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 wagging	advcl
13	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Lasse	amod
14	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 perceiving	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which animal		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	describe	present	the text		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	wag	gerund	the text not said here	text's tail	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
4	perceive	gerund	the text not said here	Little Lasse	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lasse=Stimulus

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

Hektor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hektor	Hektor	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bo	Bo	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Rex

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rex	Rex	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fylax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fylax	Fylax	PROPN	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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