Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…

To which celestial body did the young man first apply for counsel?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: celestial body · What happens: do, apply · To what, where: young man

This is exam question 3 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 did	obl
3	celestial	celestial	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 body	compound
4	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 apply	advmod
10	apply	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 did	parataxis
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 counsel	case
12	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 apply	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	celestial body	the young man					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
2	apply	present						for counsel; first property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for counsel=Eventuality

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 stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stars	det
2	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	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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