Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a…

What prohibition was imposed upon the clerks as a condition of their employment?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clerks · What happens: impose, condition, employ · To what, where: prohibition, employment

This is exam question 4 of lesson 915 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, part 126: a silly pretend play, then the strange street of pepper clerks» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 prohibition	det
2	prohibition	prohibition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imposed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 imposed	aux:pass
4	imposed	impose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 clerks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clerks	det
7	clerks	clerk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 imposed	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 condition	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 condition	det
10	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 imposed	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 employment	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 employment	nmod:poss
13	employment	employment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 condition	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 imposed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	impose	past · passive		what prohibition	upon the clerks; as a condition of clerks's employment	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	condition			clerks's employment		nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient
3	employ		clerks = clerk			nom employment «state transitive»: poss=agent

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

smoking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

wives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

marriage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	marriage	marriage	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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