Exam question 1 · Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince…

Which magical substance did the old witch employ in the composition of the enchanted sphere?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: magical substance · What happens: do, enchant · To what, where: old witch employ, composition

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1455 «Finnish Tales, The Water-Lily Maiden, part 42: the Prince dives into the river as a crab» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 did	obj
2	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 substance	amod
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 employ	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 employ	amod
7	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 employ	compound
8	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 composition	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 composition	det
11	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 sphere	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sphere	det
14	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sphere	amod
15	sphere	sphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 composition	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	magical substance	the old witch employ		the composition of the enchanted sphere			tree rules
2	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

Some nightshade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 nightshade	det
2	nightshade	nightshade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Twelve sorts of hemlock root, with black pepper and sour wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 sorts	nummod
2	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 root	case
4	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 root	compound
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorts	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pepper	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 pepper	case
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pepper	amod
9	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sorts	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wine	cc
11	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wine	amod
12	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pepper	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort			hemlock root					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nine varieties of enchanters' nightshade, together with salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 varieties	nummod
2	varieties	variety	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 nightshade	case
4	enchanters	enchanter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 nightshade	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 enchanters	case
6	nightshade	nightshade	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 varieties	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 salt	punct
8	together	together	ADV	_	10 salt	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 salt	case
10	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 varieties	conj

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

Option 4

Three kinds of wolfsbane mixed with dried frogs and honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 kinds	nummod
2	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wolfsbane	case
4	wolfsbane	wolfsbane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kinds	nmod
5	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 kinds	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 frogs	case
7	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 frogs	amod
8	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mixed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 honey	cc
10	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frogs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		Three kinds of wolfsbane not said here				with dried frogs and honey	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with frog=Co-Patient
2	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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