Exam question 1 · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

Which name was given to the Priest in the text?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give · To what, where: name, Priest, text

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1521 «Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tricked into a sack and the Governor's horses are stolen» 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 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux:pass
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Priest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Priest	det
7	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 text	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 text	det
10	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · passive		which name	the Priest	the text			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to priest=Recipient

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

Reverend Father Lawrence Dunne

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reverend	Reverend	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Reverend	flat
3	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Reverend	flat
4	Dunne	Dunne	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Lawrence	flat

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

Option 2

Brother Edmund

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Edmund	Edmund	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Brother	flat

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

Option 3

Father Lawrence of Saint Mary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Mary	case
4	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mary	compound
5	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Father Lawrence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Lawrence	Lawrence	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Father	flat

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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