Exam question 3 · Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier…

By what name was the Indian princess known who protected John Smith?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Indian princess · What happens: be, know, protect · To what, where: Indian princess, John

This is exam question 3 of lesson 347 «Brave Deeds, The Soldier and the Swede, part 7: a soldier spares a wounded enemy, and English heroes and a little Indian girl show courage» 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 name	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 name	nsubj
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 princess	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 princess	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
6	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 princess	amod
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 princess	acl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 protected	nsubj
10	protected	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 princess	acl:relcl
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 protected	obj
12	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 John	flat
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 princess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Indian princess		by name	tree rules
2	know	participle		the Indian princess not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	protect	past	the Indian princess		John		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent john=Beneficiary

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

Pocahontas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Sacagawea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Winona

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Powhatan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Powhatan	powhatan	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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