Exam question 2 · Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2:…

Ascertain the name proposed by Mother Jaguar for the creature that was «a little bit of both».

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, creature · What happens: ascertain, propose, be · To what, where: name, little bit

This is exam question 2 of lesson 83 «Just So Stories, The Beginning of the Armadillos, part 2: swimming lessons, curling lessons, and a new name» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 name	det
3	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 name	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Jaguar	case
6	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Jaguar	compound
7	Jaguar	Jaguar	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 proposed	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 creature	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 creature	det
10	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proposed	obl
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 bit	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bit	cop
13	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 bit	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bit	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bit	amod
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 creature	acl:relcl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 both	case
18	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	16 bit	nmod
19	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 bit	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the name		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	propose	participle		the name not said here	by Mother Jaguar; for the creature	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past	the creature	a little bit	of both	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 · ← Mova's choice

Tortihog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tortihog	Tortihog	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Tort

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Hedgehog-Tortoise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Tortoise	punct
3	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hedgehog	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Armadillo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Armadillo	Armadillo	PROPN	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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