Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Uncle Remus's Story of the War, part 28: Remu…

Which town did the invading forces first capture, according to the narrator's account?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: town, narrator · What happens: do, accord, account · To what, where: invading forces

This is exam question 4 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 town	det
2	town	town	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	6 forces	det
5	invading	invading	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forces	compound
6	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 capture	amod
8	capture	capture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forces	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 account	punct
10	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 account	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 according	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 narrator	det
13	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 account	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 narrator	case
15	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forces	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which town	the invading forces and first capture and the narrator's account	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Eventuality
2	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	account		the narrator		nom account «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 · ✓ the right answer

Atlanta

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Atlanta	Atlanta	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Macon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Macon	macon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the capital city of the state

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 city	det
2	capital	capital	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 city	amod
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 state	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 state	det
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 city	nmod

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

Option 4

Savannah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Savannah	Savannah	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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