Exam question 1 · pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the…

Which object did the old man strike with the silver staff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: old man strike

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1752 «pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the thirteenth dish is forbidden, and must leave the house» 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	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 strike	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strike	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strike	compound
7	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 staff	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 staff	det
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 staff	compound
11	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strike	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the old man strike				with the silver staff	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strike=Eventuality

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 wooden gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gate	amod
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the thirteenth dish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dish	det
2	thirteenth	thirteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dish	amod
3	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the granite block

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 block	det
2	granite	granite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 block	compound
3	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the golden table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 table	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 table	amod
3	table	table	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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