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

What was the name of the cause of the stepmother's death?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stepmother · What happens: be, cause, die · To what, where: name, death

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 name	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 name	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 name	det
4	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 cause	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cause	det
7	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 name	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 death	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stepmother	det
10	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 death	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 stepmother	case
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cause	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 name	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the name	of the cause of the stepmother's death	tree rules
2	cause			the stepmother's death		nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
3	die		the stepmother			nom death «event 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a black snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 snake	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snake	amod
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a red spider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spider	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spider	amod
3	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a sharp fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fish	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a wasp sting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sting	det
2	wasp	wasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sting	compound
3	sting	sting	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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