Exam question 4 · Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik ou…
Which of the following describes the manner in which Rogear was slain by Peronnik's companion?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: companion · What happens: follow, describe, slay · To what, where: manner, Rogear
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1320 «Violet Fairy Book, Peronnik the Fool, part 45: Peronnik outwits the lion, the dragons and the black man, then takes the golden bowl and diamond lance from Rogear» 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 | 5 describes | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 describes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 describes | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 describes | nsubj |
| 5 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 manner | det |
| 7 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 describes | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 slain | obl |
| 10 | Rogear | Rogear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 slain | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 slain | aux:pass |
| 12 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 manner | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 companion | case |
| 14 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 companion | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Peronnik | case |
| 16 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slain | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 describes | 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 | describe | present | the manner | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme | |||||
| 3 | slay | past · passive | Peronnik's companion | Rogear | the manner | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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
By a long yellow spear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 spear | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 spear | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spear | amod |
| 4 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spear | amod |
| 5 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
By a bite from a yellow dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 bite | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bite | det |
| 3 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 dragon | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 6 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dragon | amod |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bite | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
By a touch from the woman's long yellow finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 touch | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 touch | det |
| 3 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 finger | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 woman | case |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 finger | amod |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 finger | amod |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
By a blow from the lady's iron ball
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 blow | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 blow | det |
| 3 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 ball | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ball | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ball | compound |
| 9 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blow | nmod |
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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