Exam question 1 · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

Which figure in the first part advises the young man concerning the serpent-king's feast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: figure, young man · What happens: advise, concern · To what, where: young man, feast

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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 figure	det
2	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advises	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 part	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 part	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 part	amod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 figure	nmod
7	advises	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 advises	obj
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 man	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
13	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 king	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 serpent	punct
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 feast	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 advises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other	present	which figure in the first part		the young man				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
2	concern	gerund	the young man not said here	the serpent king's feast					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus feast=Experiencer

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

The wizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A monk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The old hermit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hermit	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hermit	amod
3	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Crone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crone	crone	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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