Exam question 1 · Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the…

Which animal was the tallest member of the company and first to look through the window?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: animal · What happens: be, look · To what, where: tallest member

This is exam question 1 of lesson 729 «Grimm, The Musicians of Bremen: the robbers flee from the animals' noisy concert» 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 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 member	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 member	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 member	det
5	tallest	tall	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 member	amod
6	member	member	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 company	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 company	det
9	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 member	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 look	cc
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 look	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 member	conj
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 window	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 window	det
16	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 look	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 member	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which animal	the tallest member				of the company	tree rules
2	look	to-infinitive	which animal not said here					through the window; first property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme

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 right answer

The ass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Cock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The cock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cat	cat	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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