Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of…

According to the narrator, by what mechanism does a witch effect the separation of its integument?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mechanism, integument · What happens: accord, do, separate · To what, where: narrator, witch effect

This is exam question 2 of lesson 586 «Uncle Remus, A Plantation Witch, part 1: the boy hears of witch-stirrups and a witch who loses his skin» 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	According	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 what	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrator	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrator	det
4	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 According	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
8	mechanism	mechanism	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	nsubj
9	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 what	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 effect	det
11	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 effect	compound
12	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 does	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 separation	det
14	separation	separation	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 effect	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 integument	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 integument	nmod:poss
17	integument	integument	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 separation	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund			to the narrator goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to narrator=Goal
2	do	present	mechanism	a witch effect		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Eventuality
3	separate		mechanism's integument			nom separation «state intransitive»: of=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

Through the mouth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 mouth	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouth	det
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Through a split along the upper back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 split	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 split	det
3	split	split	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	along	along	ADP	_	7 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 back	det
6	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 back	amod
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 split	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Through a slit in the back of the neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 slit	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 slit	det
3	slit	slit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 back	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 back	det
6	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slit	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 neck	det
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 back	nmod

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

Option 4

By a cut in the hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	By	by	ADP	_	3 cut	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cut	det
3	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hide	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hide	det
6	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	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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