Exam question 1 · Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar,…

Which object did the youth squeeze, causing the death of the old man?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, old man · What happens: do, cause, die · To what, where: youth squeeze, death

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1648 «Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar, and a seven-headed serpent» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	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	6 squeeze	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 squeeze	compound
6	squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 causing	punct
8	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 death	det
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 causing	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 death	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the youth squeeze	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squeeze=Eventuality
2	cause	gerund	which object not said here	the death of the old man	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient
3	die		the old man		nom death «event intransitive»: of=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 stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

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 3

Rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	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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