Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the…

Identify the creature whom the king's son assisted in combat.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, assist · To what, where: creature, combat

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2017 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, part 36: the king's son and the magic bundle» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 creature	det
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 assisted	nsubj:pass
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 assisted	nsubj
9	assisted	assist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 creature	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 combat	case
11	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 assisted	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the creature					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme
2	assist	participle · passive		the creature		combat			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

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 badger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

the big black raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 raven	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 raven	amod
3	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 raven	amod
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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