Exam question 1 · Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 7: Hans gives away…

Which article did Hans carry to the market upon the Miller's request?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: article, Miller · What happens: carry, request · To what, where: market

This is exam question 1 of lesson 2037 «Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 7: Hans gives away everything and works until he is worn out» 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 article	det
2	article	article	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 carry	aux
4	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 carry	nsubj
5	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 market	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 market	det
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 request	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Miller	det
11	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 request	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Miller	case
13	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carry	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · do-support	which article			the market		upon the Miller's request	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to market=Destination
2	request		the Miller						nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

a sack of oats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 oats	case
4	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sack	nmod

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

Option 2

a heavy sack of flour and two loaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sack	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sack	amod
3	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 flour	case
5	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sack	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 loaves	cc
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 loaves	nummod
8	loaves	loaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sack	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a sack of flour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 flour	case
4	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sack	nmod

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

Option 4

some bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 bread	det
2	bread	bread	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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