Exam question 1 · Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany thre…

Which gift is the one that makes Tephany clever and sharp in her speech?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gift, one, Tephany · What happens: be, make, speak · To what, where: one, Tephany, speech · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1328 «Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany three magic gifts, and she grows vain and sharp» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obj
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 makes	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sharp	cc
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clever	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 speech	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 speech	nmod:poss
14	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which gift	the one			tree rules
2	make	present	the one	Tephany	Tephany's speech	clever property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tephany=Product
3	speak		Tephany				nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=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

The pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pin	det
2	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The necklace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 necklace	det
2	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The feather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 feather	det
2	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The copper pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pin	det
2	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pin	compound
3	pin	pin	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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