Exam question 1 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

Which of the following did the narrator conceal in a pen situated in the swamp?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, conceal, situate · To what, where: pen, swamp

This is exam question 1 of lesson 592 «Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remus hides the stock and waits with his axe as the Yankees pass» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 conceal	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 narrator	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrator	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 narrator	case
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 narrator	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narrator	det
7	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conceal	obl
8	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 pen	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pen	det
11	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 conceal	obl
12	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 pen	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 swamp	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 swamp	det
15	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 situated	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	conceal	infinitive		a pen	of the narrator	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in pen=Location
3	situate	participle	a pen not said here	the swamp		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in swamp=Destination

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 mules

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mules	det
2	mules	mule	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the valuables from the sitting-room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 valuables	det
2	valuables	valuable	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	7 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
5	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 room	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 sitting	punct
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 valuables	nmod

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

Option 3

the horses and the family silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horses	det
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 silver	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 silver	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silver	compound
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horses	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the hogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hogs	det
2	hogs	hog	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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