Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl g…

Which name did the imp sing at his spinning-wheel, as recorded in the text?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: name · What happens: do, record · To what, where: imp sing, spinning wheel, text

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1944 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, part 3: the girl guesses the imp's name, and the sillies begin their troubles» 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 name	det
2	name	name	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	6 sing	det
5	imp	imp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sing	compound
6	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 wheel	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wheel	nmod:poss
9	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wheel	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 spinning	punct
11	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 recorded	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 recorded	mark
14	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 text	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 text	det
17	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 recorded	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which name	the imp sing		name's spinning wheel			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sing=Eventuality
2	record	participle	which name not said here			the text			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=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 · ← Mova's choice

Tom Tit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Tit	Tit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	flat

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

Option 2

Tim Tot Tit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tim	Tim	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Tot	Tot	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tim	flat
3	Tit	Tit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tim	flat

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tom Tit Tot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Tit	Tit	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	flat
3	Tot	Tot	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tom	flat

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

Option 4

Tot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tot	tot	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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