Exam question 4 · Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries…
Which feature identifies the mermaid who offers the King assistance?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feature, mermaid · What happens: identify, offer · To what, where: mermaid, King assistance
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1424 «Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries the King away, and a mermaid offers to save him» 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 feature | det |
| 2 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 identifies | nsubj |
| 3 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mermaid | det |
| 5 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 identifies | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 offers | nsubj |
| 7 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mermaid | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 assistance | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 assistance | compound |
| 10 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offers | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | present | which feature | the mermaid | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mermaid=Theme | ||||
| 2 | offer | present | the mermaid | the King assistance | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent assistance=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 · ← Mova's choice
Scales
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A tail resembling that of a fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tail | det |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | resembling | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 tail | acl |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 resembling | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fish | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 that | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resemble | gerund | a tail not said here | a tail | tree rules |
Option 3
A long shimmering tail covered in silver scales that glitter in the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tail | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tail | amod |
| 3 | shimmering | shimmering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | compound |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tail | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 scales | case |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scales | compound |
| 8 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 glitter | nsubj |
| 10 | glitter | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 scales | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sun | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 glitter | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | participle | a long shimmering tail not said here | in silver scales | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in scale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | glitter | present | silver scales | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sun=Location |
Option 4
Legs like a bird's feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 bird | case |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Legs | 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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