Exam question 1 · A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the ol…

Which conveyance did the company board when they departed along the Boulevard de Sebastopol?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: conveyance, they · What happens: do, depart · To what, where: company board, Boulevard Sebastopol

This is exam question 1 of lesson 818 «A Poet's Bazaar, The Dryad, part 29: the Rat mourns the old days, the Dryad dances at Mabille and flies to the red tower, and the fishes gossip» 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 conveyance	det
2	conveyance	conveyance	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	6 board	det
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 board	compound
6	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 departed	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 departed	nsubj
9	departed	depart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
10	along	along	ADP	_	14 Sebastopol	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sebastopol	det
12	Boulevard	Boulevard	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Sebastopol	compound
13	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Boulevard	flat
14	Sebastopol	Sebastopol	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 departed	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which conveyance	the company board					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Eventuality
2	depart	past	they			the Boulevard Sebastopol			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along sebastopol=Initial_Location

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

an open omnibus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a cab

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cab	det
2	cab	cab	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a hack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hack	det
2	hack	hack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a closed fiacre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fiacre	det
2	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fiacre	amod
3	fiacre	fiacre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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