Exam question 1 · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…
Which god appeared to the Woodman after his axe was lost in the pool?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: god · What happens: appear, lose · To what, where: axe, pool
This is exam question 1 of lesson 372 «Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woodman gets all three axes» 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 god | det |
| 2 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Woodman | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Woodman | det |
| 6 | Woodman | Woodman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 lost | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 axe | nmod:poss |
| 9 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux:pass |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 appeared | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 pool | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pool | det |
| 14 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | which god | to the Woodman | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | god's axe | the pool | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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
Pluto
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pluto | Pluto | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Mercury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Zeus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zeus | Zeus | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Apollo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apollo | Apollo | PROPN | 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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