Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…

Identify the agent by whom the charmed ring was ultimately retrieved from the ogress's throat during the night.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, charm, retrieve · To what, where: agent, charmed ring, throat

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1834 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is stolen and the cat sets out to win it back» 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 agent	det
3	agent	agent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 whom	case
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Identify	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
7	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ring	amod
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retrieved	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 retrieved	aux:pass
10	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	11 retrieved	advmod
11	retrieved	retrieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 whom	acl:relcl
12	from	from	ADP	_	16 throat	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ogress	det
14	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throat	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 ogress	case
16	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retrieved	obl
17	during	during	ADP	_	19 night	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 night	det
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retrieved	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the agent				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent agent=Theme
2	charm	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	retrieve	past · passive		the charmed ring	the ogress's throat	night	ultimately property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from throat=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 right answer

a rat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

an ant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

an owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	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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