Exam question 1 · Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in…

Identify the instrument with which the protagonist enlarged the aperture in the pit wall.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, protagonist · What happens: identify, enlarge · To what, where: instrument, aperture, pit wall

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1796 «Eastern tales, Hassebu, part 47: Hassebu is left to die in a honey pit, escapes through a scorpion's hole, and is caught at the baths» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 instrument	det
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 enlarged	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 protagonist	det
7	protagonist	protagonist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enlarged	nsubj
8	enlarged	enlarge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 instrument	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 aperture	det
10	aperture	aperture	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enlarged	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 wall	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wall	det
13	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wall	compound
14	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enlarged	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the instrument					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme
2	enlarge	past	the protagonist	the aperture		the pit wall		with the instrument	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent aperture=Patient with which=Instrument

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 dagger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a rusty spade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spade	det
2	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spade	amod
3	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a folding knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 knife	det
2	folding	folding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knife	compound
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a sharp stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	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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