Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of…

Which object did the young man draw from his turban in order to create the palace of ice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, create · To what, where: young man draw, turban, palace

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 draw	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 draw	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 draw	compound
7	draw	draw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 turban	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 turban	nmod:poss
10	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 order	case
12	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turban	nmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 create	mark
14	create	create	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 palace	det
16	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 create	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 ice	case
18	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 palace	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the young man draw		object's turban in order			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draw=Eventuality
2	create	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the palace of ice					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Result

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

a small bright stone wrapped in silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stone	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 silk	case
7	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	participle		a small bright stone not said here		silk			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in silk=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a tiny bright stone from the old well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 old	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 old	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 old	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a small bright stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stone	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
3	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stone	amod
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a small silver key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 key	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 key	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 key	compound
4	key	key	NOUN	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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