Exam question 4 · pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is ki…

Specify the animal whose flesh the wolf procured in order to attract the crow.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, flesh · What happens: specify, procure, attract · To what, where: animal, order, crow

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1757 «pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is killed and a crow brings him back to life» 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 flesh	nmod:poss
5	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 procured	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 procured	nsubj
8	procured	procure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 animal	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 procured	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 attract	mark
12	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 procured	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crow	det
14	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attract	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the animal		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent animal=Theme
2	procure	past	flesh		order	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	attract	to-infinitive	flesh not said here	the crow		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Patient

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

a deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 deer	det
2	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

eel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

an ox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ox	det
2	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rat	rat	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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