Exam question 1 · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

Which object, when cast by the younger sister, caused an impenetrable forest to arise?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: cast, cause, arise · To what, where: impenetrable forest

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caused	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cast	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 cast	advmod
5	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 object	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 sister	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sister	det
8	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 sister	amod
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 object	punct
11	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 forest	det
13	impenetrable	impenetrable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 forest	amod
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caused	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 arise	mark
16	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 forest	acl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cast	participle			by the younger sister	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by sister=Destination
2	cause	past	which object	a impenetrable forest		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition forest=Patient
3	arise	to-infinitive	which object not said here	a impenetrable forest not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

The needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def 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 4

The ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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