Exam question 3 · Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's t…
To what establishment did Labakan repair following his expulsion from the premises?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: establishment · What happens: do, follow, expel · To what, where: Labakan repair, expulsion, premises
This is exam question 3 of lesson 719 «Violet Fairy Book, The Colony of Cats, part 1: Labakan's tailor shop and Lizina's first days with the cats» 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=Int | root | root |
| 3 | establishment | establishment | 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 | Labakan | labakan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 repair | amod |
| 6 | repair | repair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 did | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 expulsion | nmod:poss |
| 9 | expulsion | expulsion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 following | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 premises | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 premises | det |
| 12 | premises | premise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 following | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | establishment | Labakan repair | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repair=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | establishment not said here | establishment's expulsion | the premises | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent expulsion=Theme from premise=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | expel | establishment | nom expulsion «act transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
A hut
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hut | det |
| 2 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The old shop of his former master
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shop | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shop | amod |
| 3 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 master | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 master | amod |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shop | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A nearby tavern on the harbour road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tavern | det |
| 2 | nearby | nearby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tavern | amod |
| 3 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 road | compound |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tavern | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
An inn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 inn | det |
| 2 | inn | inn | 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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