Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: t…

Which of the following terms, as used in the passage, most nearly denotes a wager in modern usage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, use, denote · To what, where: following terms, passage, wager

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1490 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, part 1: three brothers try to guard a meadow from a mysterious night raid» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 terms	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 terms	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 terms	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 terms	amod
5	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 used	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 used	mark
8	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 terms	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 passage	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 passage	det
11	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 denotes	punct
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 nearly	advmod
14	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	15 denotes	advmod
15	denotes	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 terms	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 wager	det
17	wager	wager	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 denotes	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 usage	case
19	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 usage	amod
20	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 denotes	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 terms	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	participle	the following terms not said here	the passage		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	denote	present	a wager		in modern usage; nearly property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot wager=Theme in usage=Attribute

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

Oath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oath	oath	NOUN	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	Ay	ay	INTJ	_	root	root

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

Option 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bet	bet	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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