Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is c…

Which implement did the stepmother employ to dispatch the young girl?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: implement · What happens: employ, dispatch · To what, where: young girl

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1945 «English Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the stepmother is crushed by a millstone after the bird sings the truth» 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 implement	det
2	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 employ	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stepmother	det
5	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
6	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dispatch	mark
8	dispatch	dispatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 employ	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dispatch	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which implement						vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	dispatch	to-infinitive	which implement not said here	the young girl					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient

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 saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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

an axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a spade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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