Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

Which creature first leapt upon the larger ox in the course of the combat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: leapt · To what, where: course

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leapt	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 leapt	advmod
4	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 ox	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ox	det
7	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ox	amod
8	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leapt	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 course	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 course	det
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leapt	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 combat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 combat	det
14	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 course	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 leapt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leapt	past	which creature			the course of the combat		upon the larger ox; first property	tree rules

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

Snati

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Snati the faithful hound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hound	det
3	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hound	amod
4	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Snati	appos

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

Option 4

the big dog Snati

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dog	appos

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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