Exam question 2 · Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa…

Of what material were the grains of dust in the streets of Pita composed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, compose · To what, where: grains, streets

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1137 «Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa frees a python king and is promised a reward» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grains	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grains	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grains	det
6	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 what	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 dust	case
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grains	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 streets	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 streets	det
11	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grains	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Pita	case
13	Pita	Pita	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 streets	nmod
14	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 streets	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the grains		the streets of Pita		of dust	tree rules
2	compose	participle		the streets of Pita not said here					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

crushed gold, silver and precious jewels of every kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 gold	amod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 silver	punct
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gold	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 jewels	cc
6	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 jewels	amod
7	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gold	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 kind	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 kind	det
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jewels	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	participle							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

pure white ivory

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ivory	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ivory	amod
3	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

red clay and sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clay	amod
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sand	cc
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clay	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

gold and silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 silver	cc
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gold	conj

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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