Exam question 3 · Stories of Old England, King Canute on the Seashore: Canut…

Which monarch, following his dream, achieved victory within the stipulated period of seven days?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: monarch, his · What happens: follow, achieve, stipulate, dream · To what, where: dream

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 monarch	det
2	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 monarch	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dream	nmod:poss
6	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 following	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 victory	punct
8	achieved	achieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 victory	amod
9	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 monarch	conj
10	within	within	ADP	_	13 period	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 period	det
12	stipulated	stipulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 period	amod
13	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 victory	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 days	case
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 days	nummod
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 period	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 monarch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	follow	gerund	which monarch and achieved victory within the stipulated period of seven days not said here	his dream	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme
2	achieve	participle			vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	stipulate	participle			tree rules
4	dream		his = he		nom dream «cognition 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 · ✓ the right answer

King Alfred the Great

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Alfred	nmod:desc
2	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Great	det
4	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Alfred	amod

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

Option 2

King Edward the Elder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Edward	nmod:desc
2	Edward	Edward	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Elder	det
4	Elder	Elder	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Edward	appos

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

Option 3

Alfred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

King Canute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Canute	Canute	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 King	flat

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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