Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

Which agent was responsible for recognising the ducklings by their odour?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: agent · What happens: be, recognise · To what, where: ducklings

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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 agent	det
2	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 responsible	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 responsible	cop
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 recognising	mark
6	recognising	recognise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 responsible	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ducklings	det
8	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recognising	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 odour	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 odour	nmod:poss
11	odour	odour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 recognising	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 responsible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which agent					responsible property	tree rules
2	recognise	gerund	which agent not said here	the ducklings				by ducklings's odour	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duckling=Stimulus

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 servant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The duck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The wicked old witch of the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 witch	det
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 witch	amod
4	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 witch	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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