Exam question 4 · pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the…

Which member of the household did the lady instruct Elsa to leave behind?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: member · What happens: instruct, leave behind · To what, where: Elsa

This is exam question 4 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 member	det
2	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 instruct	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 household	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 household	det
5	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 member	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 instruct	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 instruct	nsubj
9	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 instruct	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 leave	mark
12	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 instruct	advcl
13	behind	behind	ADV	_	12 leave	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 instruct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · do-support	which member of the household		Elsa				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elsa=Recipient
2	leave behind	to-infinitive	which member of the household not said here					behind property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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

the black cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the old man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Kisika

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the stepmother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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