Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard ord…

Upon which material did Renelde commence her labours when the Count first observed her at the cottage?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Renelde, Count · What happens: commence, observe · To what, where: labours, Renelde, cottage

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1568 «Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, part 1: Count Burchard orders Renelde to spin nettles into two shifts, and then falls ill» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 material	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 commence	obl
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 commence	aux
5	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 commence	nsubj
6	commence	commence	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 labours	nmod:poss
8	labours	labour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 commence	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 observed	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Count	det
11	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 observed	nsubj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 observed	advmod
13	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 commence	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 observed	obj
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 cottage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cottage	det
17	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 observed	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 commence	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	commence	past · do-support	Renelde	Renelde's labours				upon which material	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labour=Eventuality
2	observe	past	the Count	Renelde		the cottage		first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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

flax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

raw sheep's wool from the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	raw	raw	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sheep	amod
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wool	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sheep	case
4	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hills	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hills	det
7	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wool	nmod

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

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

hemp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

linen thread bought in the town market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	linen	linen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thread	amod
2	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thread	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 market	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 market	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 market	compound
7	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	participle		linen thread not said here		the town market			vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

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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