Exam question 4 · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…

In what manner did the sheep's wool and horns appear?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: wool · What happens: do, appear · To what, where: manner

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wool	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 sheep	case
8	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 appear	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 horns	cc
10	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wool	conj
11	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past				what manner			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	appear	present	the sheep's wool and horns						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

soft as silk, horns bent like iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horns	amod
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 silk	case
3	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 soft	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 soft	punct
5	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 horns	acl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 iron	case
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	participle		soft horns not said here				like iron	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

white as snow, horns shining like gold and curled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 snow	case
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 white	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 horns	punct
5	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snow	conj
6	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 horns	acl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shining	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 curled	cc
10	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 shining	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund	horns not said here					like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	curl	participle	horns not said here						vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

white as snow, horns shining like gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horns	amod
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 snow	case
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horns	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 horns	acl
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 gold	case
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shining	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund	white horns not said here					like gold	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

white as snow, horns dull as bronze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horns	amod
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 snow	case
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horns	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dull	obl:unmarked
6	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 bronze	case
8	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dull	obl

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

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