Exam question 3 · More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms t…

Identify the location to which the children are conducted after their departure from Gold Street.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, children · What happens: identify, conduct, depart · To what, where: location, children, Gold Street

This is exam question 3 of lesson 235 «More English Fairy Tales, The Pied Piper: a piper charms the rats, then leads the children away for good» 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 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 conducted	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 children	det
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 conducted	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 conducted	aux:pass
9	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 location	acl:relcl
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 departure	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 departure	nmod:poss
12	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 conducted	obl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 Street	case
14	Gold	Gold	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Street	compound
15	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 departure	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the location			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=Theme
2	conduct	present · passive		the children	the location	after children's departure from Gold Street	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to which=Destination
3	depart		children = child		Gold Street		nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place

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

A cave in the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cave	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 hills	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hills	det
5	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cave	nmod

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

Option 2

The dark forest past the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 forest	amod
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 mill	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mill	det
6	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forest	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The cool green forest beyond Silver Street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
2	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forest	amod
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 forest	amod
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	7 Street	case
6	Silver	Silver	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Street	compound
7	Street	Street	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forest	nmod

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

Option 4

The distant hill beyond the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hill	det
2	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hill	amod
3	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hill	nmod

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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