Exam question 2 · Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets…

To what destination did the impoverished family propose to travel without a valid ticket?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: destination, impoverished family · What happens: do, impoverish, propose, travel

This is exam question 2 of lesson 596 «Uncle Remus, A Case of Measles, part 32: Remus brags, gets sick, warns a poor family, and confesses to a murder that may not have happened» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 propose	obl
3	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 family	det
6	impoverished	impoverish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 family	amod
7	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 propose	nsubj
8	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 travel	mark
10	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 propose	xcomp
11	without	without	ADP	_	14 ticket	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ticket	det
13	valid	valid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ticket	amod
14	ticket	ticket	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 travel	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	destination		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	impoverish	participle			tree rules
3	propose	infinitive	the impoverished family		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to what=Recipient clause=Topic
4	travel	to-infinitive	the impoverished family not said here	without a valid ticket	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Alabama

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

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 3 · ✓ the right answer

Tallapoosa, Alabama

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tallapoosa	Tallapoosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Alabama	punct
3	Alabama	Alabama	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Tallapoosa	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4

Jonesboro, Mississippi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jonesboro	Jonesboro	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mississippi	punct
3	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Jonesboro	conj

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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