Exam question 4 · Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the k…
What circumstance interrupts King Maximilian's reading in the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: circumstance, King · What happens: interrupt, read · To what, where: reading, narrative
This is exam question 4 of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 circumstance | det |
| 2 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 interrupts | nsubj |
| 3 | interrupts | interrupt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 reading | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Maximilian | Maximilian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 King | case |
| 7 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 interrupts | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 narrative | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 narrative | det |
| 10 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 interrupts | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 interrupts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interrupt | present | what circumstance | King's reading | the narrative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | read | King | nom reading «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
Drowsiness induced by heat and shade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drowsiness | drowsiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | induced | induce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Drowsiness | acl |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 heat | case |
| 4 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 induced | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shade | cc |
| 6 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | induce | participle | Drowsiness not said here | by heat and shade | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
A loud noise from the nearby road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 noise | det |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noise | amod |
| 3 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 noise | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A servant calling him to dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | calling | call | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 servant | acl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 calling | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 dinner | case |
| 6 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 calling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | gerund | a servant not said here | him = he | dinner | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to dinner=Recipient |
Option 4
Boredom from the book
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boredom | boredom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 book | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Boredom | nmod |
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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