Exam question 2 · Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighter…

Which object did Gessler place upon the pole in the public square as a token of submission?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: Gessler place, public square

This is exam question 2 of lesson 348 «Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighters face the spears, and Winkelried gives his life» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Gessler	Gessler	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 place	compound
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 pole	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pole	det
8	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 square	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 square	det
11	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 square	amod
12	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	as	as	ADP	_	15 token	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 token	det
15	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 submission	case
17	submission	submission	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 token	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	Gessler place		the public square		upon the pole; as a token of submission	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Eventuality

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 flag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a red banner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 banner	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 banner	amod
3	banner	banner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a crown of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown			gold					nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

his own cap

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	3 cap	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cap	amod
3	cap	cap	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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