Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel rev…

Upon what occasion did the father weep with recognition of his daughter?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: occasion · What happens: do, recognize · To what, where: father weep, daughter

This is exam question 4 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 weep	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weep	compound
7	weep	weep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 recognition	case
9	recognition	recognition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 daughter	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recognition	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	occasion	the father weep				with recognition of occasion's daughter	tree rules
2	recognize			occasion's daughter					nom recognition «state transitive»: of=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

after the cook confessed the whole trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	after	after	ADP	_	3 cook	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cook	det
3	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confessed	obl
4	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trick	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trick	amod
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confessed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confess	past		the whole trick			after the cook		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

at the wedding feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	at	at	ADP	_	4 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feast	det
3	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feast	compound
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

when he saw the gruel and the ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gruel	det
5	gruel	gruel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ring	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gruel	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	the gruel and the ring					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gruel=Stimulus

Option 4

during the dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	during	during	ADP	_	3 dinner	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dinner	det
3	dinner	dinner	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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