Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

Which character is described as having been cognisant of the linguistic capacity of the swallows?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: describe, have, be · To what, where: character

This is exam question 3 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 cognisant	case
6	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 cognisant	amod
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 cognisant	cop
8	cognisant	cognisant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 capacity	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 capacity	det
11	linguistic	linguistic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 capacity	amod
12	capacity	capacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cognisant	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 swallows	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 swallows	det
15	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 capacity	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive	which character		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
2	have	gerund			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	participle		as having cognisant; of the linguistic capacity of the swallows	tree rules

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

the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the nobles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nobles	det
2	nobles	noble	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the fisherman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fisherman	det
2	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the twins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 twins	det
2	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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