Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel rev…

Pursuant to the narrative, which substance did the cook fail to add to the wedding dishes?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrative · What happens: do, add · To what, where: cook fail

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1950 «English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel reveals the girl in rushes, and her father learns how much she loved him» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 narrative	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 substance	punct
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 substance	det
7	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrative	appos
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fail	det
10	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fail	compound
11	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 add	mark
13	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 fail	acl
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 dishes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dishes	det
16	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dishes	compound
17	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 add	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the narrative	the cook fail					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fail=Eventuality
2	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	the narrative not said here	the cook fail not said here				to the wedding dishes	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to dish=Co-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

honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

spice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

fat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	salt	salt	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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