Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok, part 5…

What characterises the palace of the Groac'h, as described in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: characteris, describe · To what, where: palace, passage

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1330 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Groac'h of the Isle of Lok, part 55: Houarn leaves Bellah and is lured to the Groac'h's shell palace» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 characterises	nsubj
2	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 characterises	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Groac'h	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Groac'h	det
7	Groac'h	Groac'h	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 palace	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 described	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 described	mark
10	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 characterises	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 passage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 passage	det
13	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 described	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	characteris	present		the palace of the Groac'h					tree rules
2	describe	participle				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

its walls of ivory and stairs of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 walls	nmod:poss
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ivory	case
4	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walls	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stairs	cc
6	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walls	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stairs	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

its walls and stairs of shell, pearl and crystal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 walls	nmod:poss
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stairs	cc
4	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walls	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 shell	case
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stairs	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pearl	punct
8	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walls	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 crystal	cc
10	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walls	conj

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

Option 3

its walls and stairs of shell, pearl and crystal, lit by the sun above the lake

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 walls	nmod:poss
2	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lit	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stairs	cc
4	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walls	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 shell	case
6	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stairs	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pearl	punct
8	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shell	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 crystal	cc
10	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pearl	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lit	punct
12	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 sun	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lit	obl
16	above	above	ADP	_	18 lake	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lake	det
18	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sun	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	participle	its walls and stairs of shell and pearl and crystal					by the sun above the lake	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

its roofs of silver and floors of marble stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 roofs	nmod:poss
2	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 silver	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roofs	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 floors	cc
6	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 roofs	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 stone	case
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stone	compound
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floors	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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