Exam question 1 · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

Which implement did Moti carry as his sole means of defence when proceeding to battle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: implement, sole · What happens: carry, mean, proceed, battle

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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 implement	det
2	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
4	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 means	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sole	nmod:poss
8	sole	sole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 defence	case
11	defence	defence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 proceeding	advmod
13	proceeding	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 defence	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 battle	mark
15	battle	battle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 proceeding	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	carry	past · do-support	which implement		tree rules
2	mean	present	Moti's sole	of defence	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	proceed	gerund			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	battle	to-infinitive			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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

A spear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A short bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bow	det
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bow	amod
3	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His staff

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 staff	nmod:poss
2	staff	staff	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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