Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…

Which language did the snuff-box employ when addressing the youth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: language · What happens: do, address · To what, where: box employ, youth

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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 language	det
2	language	language	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	8 employ	det
5	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 box	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 snuff	punct
7	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 employ	compound
8	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 addressing	advmod
10	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youth	det
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 addressing	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which language	the box employ					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	address	gerund	which language not said here	the youth					vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Destination

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 language of the Moon's own court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 language	det
2	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 court	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 court	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Moon	case
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 court	amod
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 language	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Spanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Greek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Portuguese, as used at the royal court across the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Portuguese	portuguese	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 used	mark
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Portuguese	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 court	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 court	det
7	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 court	amod
8	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 used	obl
9	across	across	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 court	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle				the royal court across the sea			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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