Exam question 1 · Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his…

Which animal did Martin purchase on his first journey to the town?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: do, journey · To what, where: Martin purchase, first journey

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1717 «Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his mother's money on a dog and a cat» 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 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 purchase	compound
5	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 journey	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 journey	nmod:poss
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 journey	amod
9	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 town	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 town	det
12	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which animal	Martin purchase		animal's first journey		to the town	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchase=Eventuality
2	journey		animal						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 wolfhound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The greyhound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The stag-hound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hound	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hound	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 stag	punct
4	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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