Exam question 3 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the gol…

Which botanical object grew from the body of the witch's daughter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: botanical object · What happens: grow · To what, where: body

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1534 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the golden hemlock and the burnt reindeer skin» 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 grew	obj
2	botanical	botanical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 object	amod
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grew	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 daughter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 witch	case
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 body	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	botanical object			the body of the witch's daughter			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent which=Product from body=Material

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

a silver birch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 birch	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birch	amod
3	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a golden willow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 willow	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 willow	amod
3	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a golden hemlock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hemlock	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hemlock	amod
3	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a tall golden hemlock in bloom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hemlock	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hemlock	amod
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hemlock	amod
4	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bloom	case
6	bloom	bloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hemlock	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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