Exam question 4 · Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go d…

Of what materials were the crowns to be procured in equal measure by the smith?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: materials, smith · What happens: be, procure · To what, where: crowns, equal measure

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» 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	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crowns	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crowns	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crowns	det
6	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 what	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 procured	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 procured	aux:pass
9	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 crowns	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 measure	case
11	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 measure	amod
12	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 procured	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 smith	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 smith	det
15	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 procured	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	materials	the crowns					tree rules
2	procure	to-infinitive · passive	the smith			equal measure			vn get-13.5.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Gold, silver and copper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 silver	punct
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gold	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 copper	cc
5	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gold	conj

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

Option 2

Iron and tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 tin	cc
3	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Iron	conj

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

Option 3

Gold, bronze and tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bronze	punct
3	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gold	appos
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tin	cc
5	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Gold	conj

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

Option 4

Gold only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Gold	advmod

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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