Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

What command did the witch issue to the palace servants?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: command · What happens: do · To what, where: witch issue

This is exam question 2 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 command	det
2	command	command	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 issue	det
5	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 issue	compound
6	issue	issue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 servants	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 servants	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 servants	compound
10	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	what command	the witch issue				to the palace servants	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent issue=Eventuality

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 sharpening of all the knives in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sharpening	det
2	sharpening	sharpening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 knives	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 knives	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knives	det
6	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sharpening	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kitchen	det
9	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knives	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the sharpening of knives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sharpening	det
2	sharpening	sharpening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 knives	case
4	knives	knife	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sharpening	nmod

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

Option 3

the washing of plates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 washing	det
2	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 plates	case
4	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 washing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash			plates					nom washing «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

the careful sharpening of every single knife in the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sharpening	det
2	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharpening	amod
3	sharpening	sharpening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 knife	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 knife	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 knife	amod
7	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sharpening	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 knife	nmod

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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