Exam question 1 · pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes…

State the colour of the casket which the maiden selected upon the instruction of the cats.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: select, instruct · To what, where: maiden, cats

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1151 «pg3027, The Girl at the Old Woman's House, part 17: ashes in the sieve, cats weave, black casket» 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maiden	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 colour	det
3	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maiden	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 casket	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 casket	det
6	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colour	nmod
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 maiden	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maiden	det
9	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	selected	select	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 maiden	acl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 instruction	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 instruction	det
13	instruction	instruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 selected	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cats	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cats	det
16	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 instruction	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 maiden	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select	participle		the maiden not said here				upon the instruction of the cats	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	instruct			the cats					nom instruction «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

Red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

White

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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