Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man…
Which of the following correctly identifies the object transformed into a mountain?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, identify, transform · To what, where: object, mountain
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1570 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Farmer Weatherbeard: the man searches for Jack, and the Eagle carries him to the farmer's house» 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 following | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 following | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 following | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 6 identifies | advmod |
| 6 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 following | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 object | det |
| 8 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 identifies | obj |
| 9 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 object | acl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 mountain | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mountain | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 transformed | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 following | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | identify | present | the object | correctly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 3 | transform | participle | the object not said here | into a mountain result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into mountain=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
The little pebble from the field
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pebble | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pebble | amod |
| 3 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pebble | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The hard stone from the kitchen floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stone | det |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stone | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floor | compound |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stone | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The great stone from the stable door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stone | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stone | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 door | amod |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stone | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stone | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | 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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