Exam question 4 · Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plag…
On what occasion did the church bells toll in the township during this period?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: occasion, church bells · What happens: do, toll · To what, where: township
This is exam question 4 of lesson 950 «Marie Grubbe, Marie Grubbe, part 161: a student flees plague to Falster» 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 toll | obl |
| 3 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bells | det |
| 6 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bells | compound |
| 7 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 toll | nsubj |
| 8 | toll | toll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 township | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 township | det |
| 11 | township | township | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 toll | obl |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 14 period | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 period | det |
| 14 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 toll | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 toll | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | occasion | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | toll | present | the church bells | the township | during this period | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on what=Location |
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 · ✓ the right answer
New Year's morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New | New | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Year | compound |
| 2 | Year | Year | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Year | case |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Christmas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Harvest time at dusk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | compound |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 dusk | case |
| 4 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sunday
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | 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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