Exam question 1 · Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the…

Of what material was the first wood through which the princess and the Bull passed composed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, compose · To what, where: first wood, princess

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1548 «Norse Tales, The Blue Bull, part 45: the princess and the Bull flee, and she tears leaves in three magic woods» 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	7 wood	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wood	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 composed	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 composed	nsubj:pass
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Bull	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Bull	det
14	Bull	Bull	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 princess	conj
15	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 composed	aux:pass
16	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wood	acl:relcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the first wood					tree rules
2	compose	past · passive		the princess and the Bull		the first wood			vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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

Brass mixed with copper ore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Brass	acl
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 ore	case
4	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ore	compound
5	ore	ore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		Brass not said here				with copper ore	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with ore=Co-Patient

Option 2

Tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Copper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

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.

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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