Exam question 3 · Popular Tales, The Master Thief, part 18: the Priest is tr…
Which substance did the thief place in one of the two flasks?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: do · To what, where: thief place
This is exam question 3 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 substance | det |
| 2 | substance | substance | 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 | 6 place | det |
| 5 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | compound |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 did | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 flasks | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 flasks | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 flasks | nummod |
| 12 | flasks | flask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which substance | the thief place | in one of the two flasks | 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
a strong poison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 poison | det |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 poison | amod |
| 3 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a strong sleeping drink from the apothecary
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 drink | det |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drink | amod |
| 3 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drink | compound |
| 4 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 apothecary | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apothecary | det |
| 7 | apothecary | apothecary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drink | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a potion of poppies and brandy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 potion | det |
| 2 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 poppies | case |
| 4 | poppies | poppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 potion | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brandy | cc |
| 6 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 poppies | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a sleeping drink
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 drink | det |
| 2 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drink | amod |
| 3 | drink | drink | 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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