Exam question 3 · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…
What substance did the Empress employ in the restoration of the damaged roads of Heaven?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: do, damage · To what, where: Empress employ, restoration
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» 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 | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 employ | det |
| 5 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | compound |
| 6 | employ | employ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 restoration | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 restoration | det |
| 9 | restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 roads | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roads | det |
| 12 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 roads | amod |
| 13 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 restoration | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Heaven | case |
| 15 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 roads | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | substance | the Empress employ | the restoration of the damaged roads of Heaven | tree rules | |||
| 2 | damage | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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
Carved jade from the western hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 jade | amod |
| 2 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 hills | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hills | det |
| 5 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hills | amod |
| 6 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 jade | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Common clay
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 clay | amod |
| 2 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Silver rods from the northern mines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rods | compound |
| 2 | rods | rod | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 mines | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mines | det |
| 5 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mines | amod |
| 6 | mines | mine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rods | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Stones of five colours, wonderfully wrought
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 colours | case |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 colours | nummod |
| 4 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stones | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrought | punct |
| 6 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 7 wrought | advmod |
| 7 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Stones | conj |
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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