Exam question 3 · Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingal…

Which branch of learning does the Student ultimately resolve to pursue?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: branch, Student · What happens: do, resolve, pursue

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2034 «Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose: the Nightingale dies singing for a red rose, and the Student throws it away» 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 branch	det
2	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 learning	case
4	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 branch	nmod
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Student	det
7	Student	Student	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 resolve	nsubj
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	_	9 resolve	advmod
9	resolve	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 does	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pursue	mark
11	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 resolve	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	present	which branch of learning		tree rules
2	resolve	present	the Student	ultimately property	tree rules
3	pursue	to-infinitive	the Student not said here		vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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

Chemistry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chemistry	chemistry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Astronomy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Astronomy	astronomy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Metaphysics

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Metaphysics	metaphysic	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Practical history and the study of law

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 history	amod
2	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 study	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 study	det
5	study	study	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 history	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 law	case
7	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 study	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	study			law					nom study «act transitive»: of=patient

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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