Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…
Which of the following accurately identifies the direction in which Burd Ellen circled the church?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Burd · What happens: follow, identify, circle · To what, where: direction, church
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 following | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 following | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 following | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 6 identifies | advmod |
| 6 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 following | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 direction | det |
| 8 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 identifies | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 circled | obl |
| 11 | Burd | Burd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 circled | nsubj |
| 12 | Ellen | Ellen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Burd | flat |
| 13 | circled | circle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 direction | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 church | det |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 circled | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 following | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | identify | present | the direction | accurately property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | ||||
| 3 | circle | past | Burd | the church | the direction | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Co-Theme |
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
Withershins, round the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Withershins | withershin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sun | punct |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Withershins | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Widershins, against the sun, three times round the church
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Widershins | widershin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sun | punct |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Widershins | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 times | punct |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Widershins | conj |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 church | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 church | det |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 times | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Widershins, against the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Widershins | widershin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sun | punct |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Widershins | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Backwards round the church, widershins, against the sun's path
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 4 church | advmod |
| 2 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 church | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 church | det |
| 4 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 widershins | punct |
| 6 | widershins | widershin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 church | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 path | punct |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 path | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 path | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 12 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 church | conj |
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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