Exam question 3 · Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5…

What position did the abbot grant Vassili within the monastery?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: position · What happens: do · To what, where: abbot grant

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» 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	3 did	obj
2	position	position	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	6 grant	det
5	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grant	compound
6	grant	grant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	Vassili	Vassili	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 grant	appos
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 monastery	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monastery	det
10	monastery	monastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	position	the abbot grant				within the monastery	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 · ← Mova's choice

bell ringer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ringer	compound
2	ringer	ringer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

gate keeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeper	compound
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

keeper of the vestments and sacred robes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 vestments	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 vestments	det
4	vestments	vestment	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 keeper	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 robes	cc
6	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 robes	amod
7	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vestments	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

wardrobe keeper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeper	compound
2	keeper	keeper	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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