Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince a…

Of what material was the chest in which the Princess and infant were cast upon the sea?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, cast · To what, where: chest, Princess

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1456 «Blue Fairy Book, The Water-Lily: a crab becomes a prince again and the witch is punished» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chest	det
6	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 cast	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cast	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 infant	cc
12	infant	infant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Princess	conj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cast	aux:pass
14	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 chest	acl:relcl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cast	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the chest					tree rules
2	cast	past · passive		the Princess		the chest		upon the sea	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in which=Destination

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

Iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Silver, bound with golden rings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bound	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bound	punct
3	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rings	case
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rings	amod
6	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	participle	Silver					with golden rings	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with ring=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Brass, bound with metal straps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bound	punct
3	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Brass	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 straps	case
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 straps	compound
6	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	participle		Brass not said here				with metal straps	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with strap=Co-Patient

Option 4

Wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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