Exam question 1 · Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe,…

In the passage, what does the prince of Emania take from Trembling's foot at the church gate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: passage · What happens: do, take · To what, where: prince, passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2012 «Irish Folk Tales, Trembling, part 31: a lost golden shoe, a hunt for its owner, and a girl locked in a closet» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 passage	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 passage	det
3	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 does	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 does	nsubj
6	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 passage	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 does	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Emania	case
10	Emania	Emania	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 prince	nmod
11	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	from	from	ADP	_	15 foot	case
13	Trembling	Trembling	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 foot	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Trembling	case
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 gate	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gate	det
18	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gate	compound
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 take	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the passage	the prince of Emania					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality
2	take	present				the passage		from Trembling's foot; at the church gate	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent from foot=Source at gate=Asset

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 slipper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the golden shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a golden ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the silver bridle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bridle	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bridle	amod
3	bridle	bridle	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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