Exam question 3 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

To what rank was the protagonist promoted during his period of servitude in the kitchen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: protagonist · What happens: be · To what, where: kitchen

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 promoted	obj
3	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 promoted	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 protagonist	det
6	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promoted	nsubj
7	promoted	promote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	during	during	ADP	_	10 period	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 period	nmod:poss
10	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promoted	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 servitude	case
12	servitude	servitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 period	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 kitchen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kitchen	det
15	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 promoted	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 promoted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the protagonist			the kitchen	during rank's period of servitude	promote property	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

Cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Head pastrycook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pastrycook	compound
2	pastrycook	pastrycook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Under chef

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	2 chef	case
2	chef	chef	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Head butler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 butler	compound
2	butler	butler	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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