Exam question 3 · Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, part 150: the Seer's ey…

Which sense did the third brother hold to be his principal faculty?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sense · What happens: hold, be · To what, where: principal faculty

This is exam question 3 of lesson 939 «Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, part 150: the Seer's eyes are clouded, the Hearer's ears burst, and the third brother sets out» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sense	det
2	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hold	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brother	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 brother	amod
6	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nsubj
7	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	12 faculty	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 faculty	cop
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 faculty	nmod:poss
11	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 faculty	amod
12	faculty	faculty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · do-support	which sense						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	which sense not said here	brother's principal faculty					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

Sight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The sense of touch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sense	det
2	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 touch	case
4	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sense	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense			touch					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The sense of smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sense	det
2	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 smell	case
4	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sense	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sense			smell					nom sense «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Smell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smell	smell	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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