Exam question 1 · Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the…

Which character was instructed by the Emperor to procure the holy water from beyond the river Jordan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Emperor · What happens: instruct, procure · To what, where: character, holy water, river Jordan

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1809 «Sept Contes Roumains, Fet-Fruners, the holy water and the emperor's end» 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 character	det
2	character	character	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	by	by	ADP	_	7 Emperor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Emperor	det
7	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 instructed	obl:agent
8	to	to	PART	_	9 procure	mark
9	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 instructed	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
11	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 procure	obj
13	from	from	ADP	_	17 Jordan	case
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	17 Jordan	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Jordan	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Jordan	compound
17	Jordan	Jordan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 procure	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 instructed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · passive	the Emperor	which character					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	procure	to-infinitive	the Emperor not said here	the holy water		the river Jordan			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from jordan=Source

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 nun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

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 3

the judge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fet-Fruners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fet	Fet	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Fruners	punct
3	Fruners	Fruners	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fet	flat

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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