Exam question 1 · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…

Which part of the palace did the knight use to punish the intruders?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: part · What happens: use, punish · To what, where: intruders

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1517 «Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen, part 14: the thieves are caught, and the Black Thief tells two tales to save his neck» 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 part	det
2	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 part	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 use	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 knight	det
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	nsubj
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 punish	mark
11	punish	punish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 use	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 intruders	det
13	intruders	intruder	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 punish	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · do-support	which part of the palace						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	punish	to-infinitive	which part of the palace not said here	the intruders					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intruder=Patient

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 furnace chamber, kept always boiling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chamber	det
2	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chamber	compound
3	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chamber	acl
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 boiling	advmod
7	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 kept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle		the furnace chamber not said here					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	boil	gerund						always property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

the dungeon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the tower, always locked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tower	det
2	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tower	punct
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 locked	advmod
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tower	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	participle		the tower not said here				always property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

the kitchen oven, always hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 oven	det
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 oven	compound
3	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hot	punct
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 oven	amod

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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