Exam question 3 · Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirst…

Which expression best characterises the king's emotional state upon the third interruption?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: expression · What happens: characteris · To what, where: emotional state

This is exam question 3 of lesson 354 «Historical Tales, The King and His Hawk, part 14: a thirsty king is kept from drinking by his pet hawk» 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 expression	det
2	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 expression	advmod
4	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 state	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	emotional	emotional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 state	amod
9	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	obj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 interruption	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 interruption	det
12	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 interruption	amod
13	interruption	interruption	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 characterises	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	which expression	the king's emotional state				upon the third interruption	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 · ✓ the right answer

extreme anger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 anger	amod
2	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

mild surprise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 surprise	amod
2	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

extreme anger toward his pet hawk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 anger	amod
2	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	toward	toward	ADP	_	6 hawk	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hawk	nmod:poss
5	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hawk	compound
6	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 anger	nmod

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

Option 4

extreme anger mixed with deep thirst and tiredness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	extreme	extreme	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 anger	amod
2	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 anger	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 thirst	case
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thirst	amod
6	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mixed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tiredness	cc
8	tiredness	tiredness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thirst	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		extreme anger not said here				with deep thirst and tiredness	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with thirst=Co-Patient

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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