Exam question 4 · Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps…

Where was Sarah finally interred, and for what reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sarah · What happens: be, inter

This is exam question 4 of lesson 865 «Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps her vow, hears a knight's legend and is buried outside the churchyard wall» 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	Sarah	Sarah	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 interred	nsubj
4	finally	finally	ADV	_	5 interred	advmod
5	interred	inter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	advcl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 what	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Where	conj
10	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 what	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						where property	tree rules
2	inter	past	Sarah					finally 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 · ← Mova's choice

In the churchyard, quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 churchyard	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 churchyard	det
3	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quietly	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 churchyard	punct
5	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Beyond the wall, as she was not a Christian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beyond	beyond	ADP	_	3 wall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wall	det
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Christian	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	10 Christian	case
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 Christian	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Christian	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 Christian	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Christian	det
10	Christian	Christian	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	she					as a Christian	tree rules

Option 3

Outside the gate, as she was a Jew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Outside	outside	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Jew	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	9 Jew	case
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Jew	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Jew	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Jew	det
9	Jew	Jew	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 gate	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					as a Jew	tree rules

Option 4

Beside the wall, as she had wished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Beside	beside	ADP	_	3 wall	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wall	det
3	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wished	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wall	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 wished	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wished	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wished	aux
8	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past · perfect	she			the wall			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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