Exam question 1 · Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her Destiny, part 30: Cath…

Which choice did Catherine make when the lady with the wheel offered her a choice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: choice, lady · What happens: make, offer · To what, where: choice, Catherine

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1641 «Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her Destiny, part 30: Catherine gets a silken ball from her Destiny's sister» 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 choice	det
2	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
4	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 offered	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 offered	nsubj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wheel	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wheel	det
11	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lady	nmod
12	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 make	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 offered	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 choice	det
15	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 offered	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	which choice						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	offer	past	the lady with the wheel	a choice	Catherine				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal choice=Theme

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

She picked a long old age.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 age	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	She	a long old age					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Patient

Option 2

She requested a happy old age, rejecting the offer of youth and beauty.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 requested	nsubj
2	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 age	det
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requested	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rejecting	punct
8	rejecting	reject	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 requested	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 offer	det
10	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rejecting	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 youth	case
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 offer	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 beauty	cc
14	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 youth	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 requested	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	request	past	She	a happy old age	vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent age=Recipient
2	reject	gerund	She not said here	the offer of youth and beauty	vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
3	offer			youth and beauty	nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She requested a happy old age.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 requested	nsubj
2	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 age	det
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requested	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 requested	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	request	past	She	a happy old age					vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent age=Recipient

Option 4

She requested a poor old age.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 requested	nsubj
2	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 age	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 requested	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 requested	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	request	past	She	a poor old age					vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent age=Recipient

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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