Exam question 1 · Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after…

Which bequest did the son elect upon the decease of his father?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bequest, father · What happens: do, decease · To what, where: son elect

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» 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 bequest	det
2	bequest	bequest	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	6 elect	det
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 elect	compound
6	elect	elect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 decease	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 decease	det
9	decease	decease	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 decease	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which bequest	the son elect				upon the decease of bequest's father	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elect=Eventuality
2	decease		bequest's father						nom decease «event intransitive»: of=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

Their goods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 goods	nmod:poss
2	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The material property of the household

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 property	det
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 property	compound
3	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 household	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 household	det
6	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 property	nmod

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

Option 3

The money and goods of the hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 money	det
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 goods	cc
4	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 money	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hut	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goods	nmod

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

Option 4

The livestock of the old household

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 livestock	det
2	livestock	livestock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 household	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 household	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 household	amod
6	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 livestock	nmod

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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