Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy cro…

What occupation, in addition to hunting, is ascribed to the uncle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: occupation, ascribe · To what, where: occupation

This is exam question 3 of lesson 854 «Fairy Tales and Stories, The Ice Maiden, part 65: Rudy crosses the mountains and reaches his uncle's house» 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 occupation	nsubj
2	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ascribed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 addition	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 addition	case
5	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 occupation	appos
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 hunting	case
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 addition	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 occupation	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ascribed	aux:pass
10	ascribed	ascribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 uncle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 uncle	det
13	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ascribed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 ascribed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	occupation								tree rules
2	ascribe	present · passive		occupation				to the uncle	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

a maker of wooden barrels and tubs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 maker	det
2	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 barrels	case
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 barrels	amod
5	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 maker	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tubs	cc
7	tubs	tub	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 barrels	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cooper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

tanner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a travelling wine merchant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 merchant	det
2	travelling	travelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wine	compound
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 merchant	compound
4	merchant	merchant	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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