Exam question 3 · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

What circumstances enabled Antonio's advancement into formal artistic training?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: circumstances, Antonio · What happens: enable, advance · To what, where: advancement, formal artistic training

This is exam question 3 of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	3 enabled	obj
2	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 enabled	nsubj
3	enabled	enable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Antonio	Antonio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 advancement	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Antonio	case
6	advancement	advancement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enabled	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 training	case
8	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 training	amod
9	artistic	artistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 training	amod
10	training	training	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enabled	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 enabled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enable	past	circumstances	Antonio's advancement		formal artistic training			tree rules
2	advance		Antonio						nom advancement «communication 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

A prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A visit from the local priest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 visit	det
2	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 priest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 priest	det
5	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 priest	amod
6	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 visit	nmod

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

Option 3

Praise from the village folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 folk	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 folk	det
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 folk	compound
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Praise	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Praise from the Count's guests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	6 guests	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Count	det
4	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 guests	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Count	case
6	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Praise	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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