Exam question 1 · Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden…

Which object did the gardener's daughter beat in order to summon the King?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, daughter · What happens: do, beat, summon · To what, where: order, King

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1844 «Old Deccan Days, The Kettle-Drum, part 28: the boy hidden in the dog and the cow, the Queens' plots» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gardener	det
5	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 gardener	case
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beat	nsubj
8	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 order	case
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beat	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 summon	mark
12	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 beat	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 summon	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	do	past	which object			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beat	past	the gardener's daughter		order	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location
3	summon	to-infinitive	the gardener's daughter not said here	the King		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Her kettle-drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 drum	nmod:poss
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drum	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 kettle	punct
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Her brass bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bell	nmod:poss
2	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bell	compound
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Her small harp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 harp	nmod:poss
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 harp	amod
3	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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