Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…

Through whom did the Sun convey the young man's appeal to the Wind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun, young man · What happens: convey, appeal · To what, where: appeal, Wind

This is exam question 4 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	Through	through	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 convey	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Sun	det
5	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 convey	nsubj
6	convey	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 appeal	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 man	case
11	appeal	appeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 convey	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Wind	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Wind	det
14	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 convey	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	past · do-support	the Sun	the young man's appeal	the Wind				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent appeal=Topic to wind=Recipient
2	appeal		the young man						nom appeal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Sun's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Sun	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

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 3

The Moon, who sent him on the long journey

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	5 sent	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 journey	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 journey	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 journey	amod
10	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the Moon	him = he		the long journey			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His own mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mother	amod
3	mother	mother	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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