Exam question 4 · Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer…

Which beast did the wolf and the bear finally agree to devour?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beast · What happens: do, agree, devour · To what, where: wolf

This is exam question 4 of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» 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 beast	det
2	beast	beast	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	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bear	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wolf	conj
9	finally	finally	ADV	_	10 agree	advmod
10	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 devour	mark
12	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 agree	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	which beast	the wolf and the bear		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality
2	agree speech: agree	present	which beast not said here		finally property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	devour not said to happen	to-infinitive	which beast not said here			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

the wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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