Exam question 2 · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

According to the account, what did King Canute deposit upon the sand?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: account · What happens: accord, deposit

This is exam question 2 of lesson 342 «Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canute orders the sea to stop and gets soaked» 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 account	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 account	det
4	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 deposit	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 deposit	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 deposit	aux
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Canute	compound
9	Canute	Canute	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 deposit	compound
10	deposit	deposit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 account	appos
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 sand	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sand	det
13	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deposit	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 account	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	deposit	past · do-support	the account					upon the sand	tree rules

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

His sceptre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 sceptre	nmod:poss
2	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 crown	nmod:poss
2	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown		His = he						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

His hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hat	nmod:poss
2	hat	hat	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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