Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to…

Which of the following accurately describes the substance in which the monsters were observed playing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, describe, observe, play · To what, where: substance, monsters

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1179 «Fairy Book, The Lion Fairy, part 45: the queen is taken to a gloomy palace, and frogs help her make a bee-sting pasty and build a cabin» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 following	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 following	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 following	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	6 describes	advmod
6	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 following	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 substance	det
8	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describes	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 observed	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 monsters	det
12	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 observed	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 observed	aux:pass
14	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 substance	acl:relcl
15	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 observed	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 following	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present	the substance		accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
3	observe	past · passive	the monsters	the substance		tree rules
4	play	gerund				vn performance-26.7-1 «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

Dark amber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 amber	amod
2	amber	amber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Quicksilver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glass	glass	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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