Exam question 2 · Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: t…

Of what material was the bag in which the cat carried the ball constructed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material, cat · What happens: be, carry, construct · To what, where: bag, ball

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1247 «Tales of Many Lands, Which was the Foolishest?, part 48: the cat wins back his ball, a prince is freed, and two wives test their husbands» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bag	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bag	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bag	det
6	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 carried	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	nsubj
11	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bag	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ball	det
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carried	obj
14	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 carried	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the bag		tree rules
2	carry	past	the cat	the ball	the bag	tree rules
3	construct	participle	the cat not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: 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

A goat's skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 goat	case
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Sheep's wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wool	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Sheep	case
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A snake's skin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skin	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 snake	case
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Leather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leather	leather	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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