Exam question 2 · pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl,…

Which individual was instructed to preserve silence regarding the events that had befallen her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: events · What happens: instruct, preserve, regard, befall · To what, where: individual, her

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1767 «pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl, and the queen dies» 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 individual	det
2	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 instructed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 instructed	aux:pass
4	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 preserve	mark
6	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 instructed	xcomp
7	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 regarding	compound
8	regarding	regard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 events	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 events	det
10	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 preserve	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 befallen	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 befallen	aux
13	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 events	acl:relcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 befallen	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 instructed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · passive		which individual		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	preserve	to-infinitive			regard the events	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	regard	gerund				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	befall	past · perfect	the events	her = she		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

the nurse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nurse	det
2	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the queen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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