Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trad…

Specify the material from which the old lady's headwear was constructed.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: specify, construct · To what, where: material, headwear

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1535 «Blue Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 1: Jack trades the cow for magic beans» 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	Specify	specify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Specify	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 constructed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lady	amod
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 headwear	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 lady	case
10	headwear	headwear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 constructed	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 constructed	aux:pass
12	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 material	acl:relcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Specify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	specify	imperative	you not said here	the material					vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent material=Theme
2	construct	past · passive		the old lady's headwear		the material			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from which=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

Knitted blue cotton

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knitted	knit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cotton	amod
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cotton	amod
3	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knit	participle							vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Red silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silk	amod
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Pressed white linen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 linen	amod
3	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pressed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	participle		white linen					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Quilted red satin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quilted	quilt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 satin	amod
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 satin	amod
3	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quilt	participle							tree rules

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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