Exam question 2 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…

Which instrument, when first played, caused the hangman and his assistant to commence dancing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: instrument · What happens: play, cause, commence · To what, where: hangman, dancing

This is exam question 2 of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 played	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 instrument	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 first	advmod
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 played	advmod
6	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 caused	punct
8	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 played	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hangman	det
10	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 caused	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 assistant	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 assistant	nmod:poss
13	assistant	assistant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hangman	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 commence	mark
15	commence	commence	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 caused	advcl
16	dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 commence	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 played	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	past	which instrument		first property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cause	past	which instrument not said here	the hangman and instrument's assistant		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition hangman=Patient
3	commence	to-infinitive	which instrument not said here	dancing		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dancing=Eventuality

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 bagpipe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bagpipe	det
2	bagpipe	bagpipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The zither

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 zither	det
2	zither	zither	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The small zither that the youth carried in his hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 zither	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 zither	amod
3	zither	zither	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 carried	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youth	det
6	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	nsubj:pass
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 zither	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 hand	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	participle · passive	the small zither not said here	the youth		his hand			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in hand=Location

Option 4

The trumpet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trumpet	det
2	trumpet	trumpet	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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