Exam question 3 · Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is s…

What name was inscribed by the father in the family Bible?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father · What happens: inscribe · To what, where: name

This is exam question 3 of lesson 919 «Andersen's Tales, The Old Church Bell: a cracked bell is sold, melted, and cast into a statue of a poet» 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	4 inscribed	obj
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inscribed	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 inscribed	aux:pass
4	inscribed	inscribe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 father	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 father	det
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 inscribed	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 Bible	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Bible	det
10	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Bible	compound
11	Bible	Bible	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 inscribed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inscribe	past · passive	the father in the family Bible	name					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

Christopher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

John Christopher Frederick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Christopher	Christopher	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 John	flat
3	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 John	flat

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

Option 3

John Frederick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 John	flat

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

Option 4

Frederick Christian John

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Christian	Christian	PROPN	_	1 Frederick	flat
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Frederick	flat

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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