Exam question 4 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Bird of Truth, part 54: the twins r…

Which entity is stated to be immortal and to be confined within a castle under guard?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: state, be, confine · To what, where: entity, guard

This is exam question 4 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 entity	det
2	entity	entity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stated	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stated	aux:pass
4	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 immortal	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 immortal	cop
7	immortal	immortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stated	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 confined	cc
9	to	to	PART	_	11 confined	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 confined	aux:pass
11	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stated	conj
12	within	within	ADP	_	14 castle	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 castle	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 confined	obl
15	under	under	ADP	_	16 guard	case
16	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 confined	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	present · passive	which entity			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	is	to-infinitive			immortal property	tree rules
3	confine	to-infinitive · passive		guard	within a castle	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»

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 witch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Bird of Truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bird	det
2	Bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Truth	case
4	Truth	Truth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bird	nmod

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

Option 3

the crystal cradle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def 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

the giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	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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