Exam question 2 · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…

What was the object used by the thief to carry the priest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, use, carry · To what, where: object, priest

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 object	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 object	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 object	det
4	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 object	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 thief	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thief	det
8	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 used	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 carry	mark
10	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 used	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 priest	det
12	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 carry	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 object	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the object		tree rules
2	use	participle	the object not said here	by the thief	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry	to-infinitive	the priest		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Theme

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

a tub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tub	det
2	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a large wooden crate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crate	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crate	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crate	amod
4	crate	crate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a sack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	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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