Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…

Which island did the fugitives select as their place of refuge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: island, fugitives · What happens: do, select

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» 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 island	det
2	island	island	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 fugitives	det
5	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 select	nsubj
6	select	select	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 place	nmod:poss
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 select	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 refuge	case
11	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which island						tree rules
2	select	present	the fugitives					as fugitives's place of refuge	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as place=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

the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woods	det
2	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Squirrel Island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squirrel	Squirrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Island	compound
2	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Crystal Mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Mountain	amod
2	Mountain	Mountain	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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