Exam question 2 · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani…
After the cock's assault at the street door, where did the captain stagger?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cock · What happens: do, assault · To what, where: captain stagger, street door
This is exam question 2 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 assault | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cock | det |
| 3 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assault | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 cock | case |
| 5 | assault | assault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 8 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | compound |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assault | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 did | advmod |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stagger | det |
| 14 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stagger | compound |
| 15 | stagger | stagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the captain stagger | after the cock's assault at the street door | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stagger=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | assault | the cock | the street door | nom assault «act transitive»: poss=agent at=place |
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
into the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | into | into | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
into the dark stable at the back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 stable | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stable | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stable | amod |
| 4 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 back | det |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stable | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
into the stable
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | into | into | ADP | _ | 3 stable | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stable | det |
| 3 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
back into the stable and out again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 stable | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stable | det |
| 4 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 back | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 out | cc |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 1 back | conj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 back | advmod |
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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