Exam question 4 · Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the broth…

What was the youth's occupation within the royal household at the time of his sister's removal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: be, remove · To what, where: occupation

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1576 «Household Tales, The Girl at the Brook, part 73: the brother fetches his sister, and they set sail with the stepmother» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	6 occupation	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 occupation	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occupation	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 youth	case
6	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	within	within	ADP	_	10 household	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 household	det
9	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 household	amod
10	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occupation	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 occupation	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 removal	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sister	nmod:poss
16	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 removal	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 sister	case
18	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 time	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 occupation	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the youth's occupation			time	within the royal household	tree rules
2	remove		his sister						nom removal «act 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

A stable-boy in the royal stables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boy	det
2	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 stable	punct
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 stables	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stables	det
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stables	amod
8	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boy	nmod

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

Option 2

Gardener

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Footman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Footman	footman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stable-boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Stable	punct
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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