Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58…

What measure of length is employed in the description of Dapplegrim's descent into the earth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dapplegrim · What happens: employ, measure, describe, descend · To what, where: measure, description, length, descent

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1561 «Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58: Dapplegrim climbs the cliff and rescues the Princess, then the King sets new tasks» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 measure	det
2	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employed	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 length	case
4	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measure	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 employed	aux:pass
6	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 description	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 description	det
9	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 descent	case
11	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 descent	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Dapplegrim	case
13	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 description	nmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 earth	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employed	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 employed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	employ	present · passive		what measure of length	the description of Dapplegrim's descent	into the earth	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	measure			length			nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient
3	describe			Dapplegrim's descent			nom description «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	descend		Dapplegrim				nom descent «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 ell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the inch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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