Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, part 21: the ani…

Where did the robbers flee after the animals' attack?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animals · What happens: be, attack

This is exam question 3 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 robbers	det
4	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flee	nsubj
5	flee	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	aux
6	after	after	ADP	_	10 attack	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 attack	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 animals	case
10	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flee	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						where property	tree rules
2	attack		the animals						nom attack «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	3 field	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

down the long road home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	down	down	ADP	_	4 road	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 road	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 road	amod
4	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 road	advmod

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

Option 3

across the wide dark moor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	across	across	ADP	_	5 moor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moor	det
3	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moor	amod
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moor	amod
5	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

into the heart of the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	3 heart	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 heart	det
3	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heart	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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