Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…

Which material is the fairy palace described as being constructed from?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, describe, construct · To what, where: fairy palace

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 material	det
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 palace	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 palace	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
5	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 palace	amod
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 palace	acl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 constructed	mark
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 constructed	aux:pass
10	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 described	xcomp
11	from	from	ADP	_	10 constructed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 palace	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	which material	the fairy palace	tree rules
2	describe	participle		the fairy palace not said here	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	construct	gerund · passive			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»

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

rare coloured crystal mined deep in the far northern hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crystal	amod
2	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crystal	amod
3	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	mined	mine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 crystal	acl
5	deep	deep	ADV	_	4 mined	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hills	det
8	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hills	amod
9	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hills	amod
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mine	participle		rare coloured crystal not said here		the far northern hills		deep property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in hill=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

clear crystal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crystal	amod
2	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

clear crystal, cut with silver and gold around the windows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crystal	amod
2	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
4	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 silver	case
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gold	cc
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 silver	conj
9	around	around	ADP	_	11 windows	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 windows	det
11	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	infinitive	clear crystal			the windows		with silver and gold	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around window=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

red granite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 granite	amod
2	granite	granite	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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