Exam question 2 · Popular Tales, The Black Thief and the Knight of the Glen,…
What did the Thief place beneath the sleeping witches' heads?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Thief place
This is exam question 2 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 4 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 place | compound |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 11 heads | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 witches | det |
| 8 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 witches | compound |
| 9 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heads | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 witches | case |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Thief place | beneath the sleeping witches's heads | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality |
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
pieces of turf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 turf | case |
| 3 | turf | turf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 pieces | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
moss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
stones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
scraps of cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 cloth | case |
| 3 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 scraps | 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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