Exam question 2 · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magi…

Which fruit caused Tiidu's nose to elongate excessively?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fruit, nose · What happens: cause, elongate · To what, where: nose

This is exam question 2 of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» 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 fruit	det
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nose	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Tiidu	case
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 elongate	mark
8	elongate	elongate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caused	xcomp
9	excessively	excessively	ADV	_	8 elongate	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	which fruit	Tiidu's nose					tree rules
2	elongate	to-infinitive	Tiidu's nose not said here					excessively property	tree rules

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

A nut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nut	det
2	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A fig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fig	det
2	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A red apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 apple	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apple	amod
3	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A green pear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pear	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pear	amod
3	pear	pear	NOUN	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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