Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a…

Which creature does Gangazara release from the second ledge of the well?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: release · To what, where: second ledge

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 release	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 release	aux
4	Gangazara	Gangazara	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 release	nsubj
5	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 ledge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ledge	det
8	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 ledge	amod
9	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 release	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 well	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 well	det
12	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ledge	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 release	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	release	present · do-support	which creature			the second ledge of the well			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer

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 tiger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A serpent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A large black cobra with a golden crest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cobra	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cobra	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cobra	amod
4	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 crest	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crest	det
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 crest	amod
8	crest	crest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cobra	nmod

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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