Exam question 1 · Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and es…

Identify the character who first perceives the true nature of the supposed uncle.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, character · What happens: identify, perceive, suppose · To what, where: character, true nature

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1810 «Grimm, Halfman, part 61: Halfman outwits the ogress and escapes the ogre» 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 character	det
3	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 perceives	nsubj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 perceives	advmod
6	perceives	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 character	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nature	det
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nature	amod
9	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perceives	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 uncle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 uncle	det
12	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 uncle	amod
13	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nature	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the character		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme
2	perceive	present	the character	the true nature of the supposed uncle	first property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nature=Stimulus
3	suppose	participle				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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

Tom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Halfman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Halfman	Halfman	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The eldest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 woman	amod
2	woman	woman	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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