Exam question 4 · Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman…

By what route did Napoleon's army cross into the plains of Italy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: route · What happens: do · To what, where: army cross, plains

This is exam question 4 of lesson 350 «Fifty Famous Stories, The Story of Cincinnatus: a plowman leaves his field to save Rome and then gives back his power» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 cross	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Napoleon	case
7	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cross	compound
8	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 plains	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plains	det
11	plains	plain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Italy	case
13	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 plains	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	route	Napoleon's army cross		the plains of Italy			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

Through the Pyrenees by a sandy coastal road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 Pyrenees	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pyrenees	det
3	Pyrenees	Pyrenees	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 road	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 road	det
6	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 road	amod
7	coastal	coastal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 road	amod
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Pyrenees	nmod

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

Option 2

By sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	2 sea	case
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Through Spain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	2 Spain	case
2	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Over the Alps, where no road existed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADP	_	3 Alps	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Alps	det
3	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 existed	punct
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 existed	advmod
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 existed	nsubj
8	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 Alps	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	participle	no road						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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