Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pi…

To whom did the golden bird address its salutation on each occasion?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: address · What happens: do, salute · To what, where: golden bird address, occasion

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1565 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Canary: three burnt geese, and a pin pulled from a bird» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	7 address	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 address	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 address	compound
7	address	address	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 salutation	nmod:poss
9	salutation	salutation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 occasion	case
11	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 occasion	det
12	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the golden bird address		each occasion			tree rules
2	salute		address						nom salutation «communication transitive»: 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 bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the chief cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
2	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cook	amod
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the kitchen maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maid	det
2	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 maid	compound
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the scullion boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	scullion	scullion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	compound
3	boy	boy	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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