Exam question 4 · Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hai…

What attribute of the cow did the physician prescribe for the restoration of the king?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: attribute · What happens: prescribe

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1068 «Gods and Fighting Men, The Story of Mongan, part 36: a hailstorm sends Mongan into Faery, where a feast and a tale begin» 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 attribute	det
2	attribute	attribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prescribe	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cow	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 attribute	nmod
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 prescribe	aux
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 physician	det
8	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prescribe	nsubj
9	prescribe	prescribe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 restoration	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 restoration	det
12	restoration	restoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 prescribe	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 king	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 restoration	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 prescribe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prescribe	past · do-support	what attribute of the cow					for the restoration of the king	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

A brown cow with black ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cow	det
2	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cow	amod
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ears	amod
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cow	nmod

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

Option 2

A perfectly white cow with red ears and a black tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cow	det
2	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 white	advmod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cow	amod
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 ears	case
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ears	amod
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cow	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tail	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tail	det
10	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tail	amod
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ears	conj

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

Option 3

A perfectly red calf with white spots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 calf	det
2	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 red	advmod
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 calf	amod
4	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 spots	case
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 spots	amod
7	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 calf	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A perfectly white cow with red ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cow	det
2	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 white	advmod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cow	amod
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 ears	case
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ears	amod
7	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cow	nmod

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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