Exam question 2 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the…

What object does the Mayor identify as missing from the statue's sword?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Mayor · What happens: do, identify · To what, where: sword

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2033 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Nightingale and the Rose, part 1: the Swallow dies, the statue is melted, and the Student needs a red rose» 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mayor	det
5	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 identify	nsubj
6	identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 does	ccomp
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 missing	case
8	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 identify	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	13 sword	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 statue	det
11	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sword	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 statue	case
13	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identify	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	what object						tree rules
2	identify	present	the Mayor			the statue's sword		as missing	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as missing=Attribute

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

A gem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 gem	det
2	gem	gem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The emerald

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The ruby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

The eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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