Exam question 4 · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house…
Which garment did the Thief retain in his possession after his departure from the inn?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: garment, Thief · What happens: do, retain, possess, depart · To what, where: Thief, possession
This is exam question 4 of lesson 397 «Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes» 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 garment | det |
| 2 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Thief | det |
| 5 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | retain | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Thief | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 possession | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 possession | nmod:poss |
| 9 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 departure | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 departure | nmod:poss |
| 12 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 inn | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 inn | det |
| 15 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which garment | the Thief | garment's possession | after garment's departure | from the inn | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Eventuality | |
| 2 | retain | present | the Thief not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | possess | garment | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | depart | garment | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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
a cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
his purse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 purse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the Innkeeper's new coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Innkeeper | det |
| 2 | Innkeeper | Innkeeper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 coat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Innkeeper | case |
| 4 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coat | amod |
| 5 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the Innkeeper's old hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Innkeeper | det |
| 2 | Innkeeper | Innkeeper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Innkeeper | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hat | amod |
| 5 | hat | hat | NOUN | 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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