Exam question 1 · Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Ja…

Which object did Jack sound at the gate of the castle in order to request admittance?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: sound, request · To what, where: gate, admittance

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1536 «Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 33: Jack is hidden in the Giant's wardrobe and steals the golden-egg hen» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	aux
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sound	nsubj
5	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 castle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 castle	det
11	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gate	nmod
12	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 request	mark
13	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 in	fixed
14	to	to	PART	_	15 request	mark
15	request	request	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sound	advcl
16	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 request	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past · do-support	which object			the gate of the castle			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location
2	request	to-infinitive	which object not said here	admittance					vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent admittance=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

a bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horn	det
2	horn	horn	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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