Exam question 4 · Sicilian Stories, Catherine and Her Destiny, part 30: Cath…

What did Destiny's sister give to Catherine as help?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sister · What happens: give · To what, where: Catherine

This is exam question 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 give	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
3	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sister	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Destiny	case
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Catherine	case
8	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 help	case
10	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	Destiny's sister		Catherine			as help	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Theme to catherine=Recipient

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

A ball of silk.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 silk	case
4	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ball	nmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ball	punct

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

Option 2

A piece of cloth.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 cloth	case
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 piece	punct

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

Option 3

A bag of gold coins.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 coins	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coins	compound
5	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bag	nmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bag	punct

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

Option 4

A silver ring.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ring	punct

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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