Exam question 2 · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls o…

What did the thieves believe the vinegar to be when it fell upon them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: thieves, vinegar · What happens: do, believe, be · To what, where: vinegar

This is exam question 2 of lesson 753 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: the door falls on the thieves» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thieves	det
4	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 believe	nsubj
5	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vinegar	det
7	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believe	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	12 fell	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 fell	cop
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 fell	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	advcl
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 fell	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	believe	present	the thieves	the vinegar		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vinegar=Stimulus
3	is	to-infinitive	vinegar		upon thieves = thief; fall 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

rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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

a heavy dew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

ale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

sour milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 milk	amod
2	milk	milk	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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