Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the st…

Which of the following substances is the diamond lance capable of severing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: following · What happens: follow, be, sever · To what, where: substances

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 capable	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	9 lance	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lance	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 lance	csubj
5	substances	substance	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 following	obj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 lance	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lance	det
8	diamond	diamond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lance	amod
9	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 capable	obl
10	capable	capable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 severing	mark
12	severing	sever	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 capable	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 capable	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund		substances		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	is	present	following		of the diamond lance	tree rules
3	sever	gerund				vn separate-23.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

any stone or metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 metal	cc
4	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stone	conj

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

Option 2

silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

thick oak and wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 oak	amod
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wool	cc
4	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 oak	conj

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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