Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Wildrose, part 16: the baby vanishes, an eagl…

By what name did the old man refer to the infant after her disappearance?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old man, name · What happens: refer, disappear

This is exam question 3 of lesson 676 «Fairy Tales, Wildrose, part 16: the baby vanishes, an eagle carries her off, the prince searches» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 refer	obl
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 refer	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refer	nsubj
8	refer	refer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 infant	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 infant	det
11	infant	infant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refer	obl
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 disappearance	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 disappearance	nmod:poss
14	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 refer	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 refer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refer	past · do-support	the old man				after name's disappearance	to the infant	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to infant=Co-Theme
2	disappear		name						nom disappearance «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

The little wild rose of the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rose	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rose	amod
3	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rose	amod
4	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Lily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wildrose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wildrose	Wildrose	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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