Exam question 1 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

Which feature of the narrative identifies the substance in which the infants were concealed during their transfer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feature, infants · What happens: identify, conceal, feature, transfer · To what, where: substance, infants, narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1188 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins run off, reach a shut hut, and overhear swallows talking about a queen and a crystal cradle» 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 feature	det
2	feature	feature	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 narrative	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrative	det
5	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feature	nmod
6	identifies	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 substance	det
8	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 identifies	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 concealed	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 infants	det
12	infants	infant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 concealed	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 concealed	aux:pass
14	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 substance	acl:relcl
15	during	during	ADP	_	17 transfer	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 transfer	nmod:poss
17	transfer	transfer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 concealed	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 identifies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	identify	present	which feature of the narrative	the substance			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	conceal	past · passive		the infants	the substance	during infants's transfer	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in which=Location
3	feature			the narrative			nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=patient
4	transfer		infants = infant				nom transfer «act transitive»: poss=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

a cradle of polished oak lined with cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cradle	det
2	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 oak	case
4	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 oak	amod
5	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cradle	nmod
6	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 oak	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 cloth	case
8	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	line	participle		polished oak not said here				with cloth	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme

Option 2

a wooden crate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a crystal cradle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a sealed glass jar floating on the calm water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 jar	det
2	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 jar	amod
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jar	compound
4	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 jar	acl
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
8	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 water	amod
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	float	gerund	a sealed glass jar not said here			the calm water			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory

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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