Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

Which dessert did Mrs. Miacca profess a fondness for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dessert, Mrs. · What happens: do, profess · To what, where: fondness

This is exam question 3 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 dessert	det
2	dessert	dessert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 profess	nsubj
5	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mrs.	flat
6	profess	profess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fondness	det
8	fondness	fondness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 profess	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	6 profess	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which dessert						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	profess	present	Mrs.	a fondness					vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent fondness=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

Hot treacle pudding with custard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pudding	amod
2	treacle	treacle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pudding	compound
3	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 custard	case
5	custard	custard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pudding	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pudding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Roly-poly jam pudding and cream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Roly	Roly	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pudding	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Roly	punct
3	poly	poly	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jam	compound
4	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pudding	compound
5	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cream	cc
7	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pudding	conj

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

Option 4

Tartlets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tartlets	tartlet	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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