Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…

exam: According to the text, which item did the cat bestow upon the children as an aid to their escape?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: exam, children · What happens: accord, bestow, escape

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» 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	exam	exam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bestow	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 text	punct
3	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 text	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 According	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 text	det
6	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bestow	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 did	obj
9	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bestow	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cat	det
12	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bestow	nsubj
13	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 children	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 children	det
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bestow	obl
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 aid	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 aid	det
19	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bestow	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 escape	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 escape	nmod:poss
22	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 aid	nmod
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 bestow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	bestow	past · do-support	exam	upon the children; as a aid to children's escape	tree rules
3	escape		children = child		nom escape «act intransitive»: 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

A comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A cloak and a hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hat	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hat	det
5	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cloak	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A pocket-handkerchief and a comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 handkerchief	det
2	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handkerchief	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 pocket	punct
4	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 comb	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 comb	det
7	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 handkerchief	conj

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

Option 4

A silver bell and a knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bell	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bell	amod
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 knife	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bell	conj

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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