Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the g…

Which implement did the cowboy select when offered the choice by Yellow Face?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: implement · What happens: select, offer · To what, where: choice

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2004 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gruagach Gaire: the cowboy makes the giant laugh and stops a wedding» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 implement	det
2	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 select	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 select	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cowboy	det
5	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 select	nsubj
6	select	select	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 offered	mark
8	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 select	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 choice	det
10	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offered	obj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 Face	case
12	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Face	amod
13	Face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 offered	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	past · do-support	which implement						vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	offer	participle	which implement not said here	the choice				by Yellow Face	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent choice=Theme

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

the wooden staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 staff	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 staff	amod
3	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the wooden pike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pike	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pike	amod
3	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the iron pike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pike	det
2	iron	iron	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pike	amod
3	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 iron	det
2	iron	iron	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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