Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani…

Upon re-entering the room, which creature first attacked the captain?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: re-enter, attack · To what, where: room, captain

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2002 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the animals chase the robbers out of their house» 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	SCONJ	_	2 re-entering	mark
2	re-entering	re-enter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 attacked	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 re-entering	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 creature	punct
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 creature	det
7	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 attacked	advmod
9	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 captain	det
11	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 attacked	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 attacked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	re-enter	gerund		the room which creature					tree rules
2	attack	past		the captain				first property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captain=Patient

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 dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the black farm cock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cock	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cock	amod
3	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cock	compound
4	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the big old grey cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
4	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cat	amod
5	cat	cat	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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