Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…

To which wind did the East Wind direct the girl for further information concerning the location of the castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: East Wind, further information · What happens: do, direct, concern · To what, where: girl, location

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1419 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6: the girl lights a candle, the prince flees, and she searches the winds» 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	_	3 wind	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Wind	det
6	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Wind	compound
7	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 direct	nsubj
8	direct	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 direct	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 information	case
12	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 information	amod
13	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 girl	nmod
14	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 information	acl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 location	det
16	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 concerning	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 castle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 location	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			to which wind	tree rules
2	direct	past	the East Wind	the girl	for further information	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent girl=Theme for information=Beneficiary
3	concern	gerund	further information not said here	the location of the castle		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus location=Experiencer

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

the West Wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wind	det
2	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the North

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 North	det
2	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the North Wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wind	det
2	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	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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