Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

In which location did Florentine's mother reside, as stated in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mother · What happens: reside, state · To what, where: location, passage

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reside	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reside	aux
5	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mother	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Florentine	case
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reside	nsubj
8	reside	reside	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stated	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 stated	mark
11	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 reside	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 passage	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passage	det
14	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stated	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 reside	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reside	past · do-support	Florentine's mother			which location			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in location=Location
2	state speech: other	participle	Florentine's mother not said here			the passage			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

across the deep sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	across	across	ADP	_	4 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sea	amod
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

in a land far across the stormy deep sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 land	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 land	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 sea	advmod
5	across	across	ADP	_	9 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
7	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sea	amod
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 land	acl:relcl

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

Option 3

across the wide and deep sea beyond the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	across	across	ADP	_	6 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
3	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sea	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 deep	cc
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wide	conj
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sea	nmod

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

Option 4

across the high hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	across	across	ADP	_	4 hills	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hills	det
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hills	amod
4	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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