Exam question 2 · Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom m…

Who first informed Tom of the wolf that plagued the walls?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: inform, plague · To what, where: Tom, walls

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2021 «Legendary Fictions, Tom with the Goat-skin, part 40: Tom makes the princess laugh twice and sends off the wolf» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 informed	nsubj
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 informed	advmod
3	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 informed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wolf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Tom	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 plagued	nsubj
9	plagued	plague	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wolf	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 walls	det
11	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plagued	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 informed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past			Tom of the wolf			first property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient
2	plague	past	the wolf	the walls					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wall=Experiencer

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 right answer

Redhead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Redhead	redhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Tom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

The guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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