Exam question 1 · Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of t…

Which instrument did the old woman employ to render the travellers immobile?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: instrument · What happens: employ, render · To what, where: travellers immobile

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1758 «Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret» 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 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 employ	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 employ	nsubj
7	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 render	mark
9	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 employ	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 immobile	det
11	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 immobile	compound
12	immobile	immobile	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 render	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which instrument						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	render	to-infinitive	which instrument not said here	the travellers immobile					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent immobile=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a rod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 club	det
2	club	club	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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