Exam question 1 · pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chai…

Which creature instructed the youth regarding the correct method of propelling the iron horse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature, correct method · What happens: instruct, regard, propel · To what, where: youth, iron horse

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1682 «pg640 tales, The Magic Ring: the Prince is caught and chained in a cave» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 instructed	nsubj
3	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 instructed	obj
6	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 method	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 method	det
8	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 method	amod
9	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 youth	nmod
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 propelling	mark
11	propelling	propel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 method	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 horse	det
13	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horse	compound
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 propelling	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 instructed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past	which creature	the youth	regard the correct method	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient
2	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	propel	gerund	the correct method not said here	the iron horse		tree rules

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 fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A grey hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hawk	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hawk	amod
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

An owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	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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