Exam question 1 · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

Which object did the man seize from the barber before fleeing the house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: seize, flee · To what, where: house

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	6 seize	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seize	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seize	nsubj
6	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 barber	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 barber	det
9	barber	barber	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seize	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 fleeing	mark
11	fleeing	flee	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 seize	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fleeing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 seize	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past · do-support	which object					from the barber	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from barber=Source
2	flee	gerund	which object not said here	the house					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Initial_Location

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

the razor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 razor	det
2	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the scissors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scissors	det
2	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

a comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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