Exam question 4 · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan tr…

Which figure of speech describes Mongan's face when Duv Laca defies him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: figure, Duv · What happens: describe, defy, figure · To what, where: face, figure, speech

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1071 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan's Frenzy, part 39: Mongan trades cows for Duv Laca» 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 figure	det
2	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 speech	case
4	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 figure	nmod
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Mongan	Mongan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 face	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Mongan	case
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 describes	obj
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 defies	mark
10	Duv	Duv	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 defies	nsubj
11	Laca	Laca	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Duv	flat
12	defies	defy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 describes	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 defies	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	describe	present	which figure of speech	Mongan's face	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent face=Theme
2	defy	present	Duv	figure	tree rules
3	figure			speech	nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

a face as red as a sunset

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 face	det
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 red	nsubj
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 red	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 sunset	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sunset	det
7	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 red	obl

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

Option 2

a face like a red rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 face	det
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 rose	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rose	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rose	amod
6	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 face	nmod

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

Option 3

a face as red as a sunset sky, with a tongue sharp as a sword

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 face	det
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 red	nsubj
3	as	as	ADP	_	4 red	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 sky	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sky	det
7	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sky	compound
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 red	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tongue	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 tongue	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tongue	det
12	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 red	conj
13	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tongue	amod
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 sword	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sword	det
16	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sharp	obl

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

Option 4

a face as pale as the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 face	det
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pale	nsubj
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 pale	advmod
4	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moon	det
7	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pale	obl

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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