Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the…

What did the giant instruct the sister to disregard during her ascent?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant · What happens: instruct, disregard · To what, where: sister

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1645 «Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the water of life, then a girl follows a wounded lion» 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	5 instruct	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 instruct	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	nsubj
5	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sister	det
7	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 disregard	mark
9	disregard	disregard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sister	acl
10	during	during	ADP	_	12 ascent	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ascent	nmod:poss
12	ascent	ascent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 disregard	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 instruct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · do-support	the giant	the sister					tree rules
2	disregard	to-infinitive	the giant not said here	the sister not said here			during giant's ascent		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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

the rude calls of the youths below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 calls	det
2	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 calls	amod
3	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 youths	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youths	det
6	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 calls	nmod
7	below	below	ADV	_	6 youths	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call			the youths					nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the mocking noises

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noises	det
2	mocking	mocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noises	compound
3	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the sounds of the crowd at the bottom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sounds	det
2	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 crowd	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crowd	det
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	nmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crowd	nmod

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

Option 4

the cruel laughter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 laughter	det
2	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 laughter	amod
3	laughter	laughter	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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