Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

Upon what vessel was the head borne into the palace by the aged woman?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: head, palace

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 vessel	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 vessel	nsubj
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 head	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 head	acl
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 borne	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 woman	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	aged	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 borne	obl:agent
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 head	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the head				upon vessel	tree rules
2	bear	participle		the head not said here		the palace			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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 golden plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

a dish of polished beaten copper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dish	det
2	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 copper	case
4	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 copper	amod
5	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 copper	amod
6	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dish	nmod

#	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	beat	participle							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a silver dish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a wooden box lined with velvet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 box	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 box	amod
3	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 box	acl
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 velvet	case
6	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	line	participle		a wooden box not said here				with velvet	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with velvet=Theme

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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