Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Tommy Grimes: Tommy tricks Mr. Miacca…

Upon what did Mr. Miacca sit whilst he awaited the boiling of the pot?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miacca · What happens: sit, await · To what, where: boiling

This is exam question 4 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	aux
4	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Miacca	nmod:desc
5	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sit	nsubj
6	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
7	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	9 awaited	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 awaited	nsubj
9	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boiling	det
11	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 awaited	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pot	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pot	det
14	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boiling	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past · do-support	Miacca Mr.						tree rules
2	await	past	Miacca	the boiling of the pot					tree rules

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

Stool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 chair	det
2	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The sofa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sofa	det
2	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floor	floor	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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