Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryde…

Identify the object to which Pryderi's hands adhered.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, hands · What happens: identify, adhere · To what, where: object

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1332 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Escape of the Mouse, part 1: Pryderi's hands stick to a golden bowl» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 adhered	obl
6	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hands	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Pryderi	case
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 adhered	nsubj
9	adhered	adhere	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 object	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	adhere	past	Pryderi's hands					to the object	vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-Theme

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 golden bowl that sat upon the marble fountain's top basin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bowl	amod
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bowl	acl:relcl
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 basin	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fountain	det
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fountain	compound
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 basin	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 fountain	case
11	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 basin	amod
12	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the golden bowl			the marble fountain's top basin			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon basin=Location

Option 2

the golden bowl upon the marble, which stood in the hall of the castle

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bowl	amod
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 marble	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marble	det
6	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowl	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hall	det
12	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hall	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the golden bowl upon the marble			the hall of the castle			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location

Option 3

the silver cup beside the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cup	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cup	compound
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cup	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the golden bowl upon the marble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bowl	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bowl	amod
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 marble	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marble	det
6	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowl	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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