Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik s…
Which of the following was the korigan's principal weapon as described in the passage?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be, describe · To what, where: principal weapon, passage
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1319 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off» 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 weapon | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 weapon | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 weapon | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 weapon | case |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 weapon | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 korigan | det |
| 7 | korigan | korigan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weapon | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 korigan | case |
| 9 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weapon | amod |
| 10 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 described | mark |
| 12 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 weapon | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 passage | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 passage | det |
| 15 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 described | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 weapon | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | of the korigan's principal weapon | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | describe | participle | the korigan's principal weapon not said here | the passage | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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 long burning sword forged in the fires of the wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sword | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sword | amod |
| 3 | burning | burning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sword | compound |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | forged | forge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sword | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 fires | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fires | det |
| 8 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 forged | obl:agent |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fires | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forge | participle | a long burning sword not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fire | the wood | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
a sword of flame that glows red in the dark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 flame | case |
| 4 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sword | nmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 glows | nsubj |
| 6 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sword | acl:relcl |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 glows | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 dark | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dark | det |
| 10 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glows | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | present | a sword of flame | the dark | red property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location |
Option 3
a silver dagger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dagger | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dagger | amod |
| 3 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a fiery sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 2 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sword | amod |
| 3 | sword | sword | 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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