Exam question 1 · Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shel…

With reference to the text, what was the occupation of the young man who lost his way in the wood?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: reference, young man · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: occupation, way, wood

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1926 «Household Tales, The Crystal Coffin, part 1: a tailor shelters with a grumpy old man, a stag carries him underground, and he frees a maiden from a glass coffin» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 occupation	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 occupation	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 occupation	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 occupation	det
10	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 occupation	nmod
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lost	nsubj
16	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 man	acl:relcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 way	nmod:poss
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lost	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wood	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wood	det
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lost	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	reference to the text and the occupation	the occupation				of the young man	tree rules
2	lose	past	the young man	man's way		the wood			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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

A baker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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

He was a tailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tailor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tailor	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a tailor					tree rules

Option 3

He was a baker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 baker	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 baker	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 baker	det
4	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a baker					tree rules

Option 4

A tailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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