Exam question 1 · Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, t…

exam: Which object does the Prince fling into the eyes of the girl at the close of the part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: Prince fling, eyes

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1549 «Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, the cruel Prince, and Kari's glove and towel» 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	exam	exam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct
3	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 object	det
4	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 exam	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fling	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fling	compound
8	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eyes	det
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 does	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 girl	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eyes	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 close	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 close	det
17	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 part	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 part	det
20	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 close	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 exam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which object	the Prince fling		the eyes of the girl		at the close of the part	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fling=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 cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a towel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a silver bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowl	compound
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a rag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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