Exam question 3 · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

Who was left in charge of the horse while the father went home?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father · What happens: leave, go, charge · To what, where: charge, horse

This is exam question 3 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 left	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 charge	case
5	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charge	nmod
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 went	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 father	det
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	advcl
13	home	home	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive			charge of the horse		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in charge=Location
2	go	past	the father			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	charge			the horse			nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient

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 right answer

The Hazel-nut child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
2	Hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nut	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Hazel	punct
4	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 child	compound
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The eldest brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brother	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The step-mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The village boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	compound
3	boy	boy	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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