Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…
Which dish did Mr. Miacca intend to prepare for his evening meal?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dish, Miacca · What happens: do, intend, prepare
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1967 «English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca with a sofa leg and runs home» 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 dish | det |
| 2 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Miacca | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Miacca | Miacca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 intend | nsubj |
| 6 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 prepare | mark |
| 8 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 intend | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 meal | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 meal | nmod:poss |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meal | compound |
| 12 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prepare | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which dish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | intend | present | Miacca Mr. | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | prepare not said to happen | to-infinitive | Miacca Mr. not said here | for Miacca's evening meal | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for meal=Beneficiary |
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
The boy Tommy Grimes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | appos |
| 4 | Grimes | Grimes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tommy | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The naughty boy Tommy Grimes from town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | appos |
| 5 | Grimes | Grimes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tommy | flat |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Herbs and pot roast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 roast | cc |
| 3 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roast | compound |
| 4 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Herbs | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The boy Tommy Grimes with herbs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Grimes | compound |
| 3 | Tommy | Tommy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | appos |
| 4 | Grimes | grime | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 herbs | case |
| 6 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Grimes | nmod |
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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