Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall t…

By what instrument was the injured robber struck upon his passage to the stable?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: injured robber, robber · What happens: be, strike, pass · To what, where: injured robber, passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2003 «Irish Fairy Tales, Jack and the Robbers: a robber's tall tale and the gold returned» 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 instrument	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 instrument	nsubj
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 robber	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 robber	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 robber	det
6	injured	injured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 robber	amod
7	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struck	nsubj
8	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 passage	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 passage	nmod:poss
11	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struck	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 stable	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stable	det
14	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 struck	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 struck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the injured robber		by instrument	tree rules
2	strike	past	the injured robber		robber's passage	to the stable	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon passage=Location
3	pass		robber				nom passage «act intransitive»: 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

By a wooden plank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	4 plank	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plank	det
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plank	amod
4	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

By a sledge-hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 hammer	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hammer	det
3	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hammer	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sledge	punct
5	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

By a stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 stone	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

By a heavy iron bar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	5 bar	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bar	det
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bar	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bar	compound
5	bar	bar	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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