Exam question 4 · Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar,…
In what material did the youth wrap the serpent's tongues before departing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material, youth · What happens: do, wrap, depart · To what, where: tongues
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1648 «Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar, and a seven-headed serpent» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wrap | obl |
| 3 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wrap | nsubj |
| 7 | wrap | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 serpent | det |
| 9 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 serpent | case |
| 11 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wrap | obj |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 departing | mark |
| 13 | departing | depart | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 wrap | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | material | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wrap | present | the youth | the serpent's tongues | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme in what=Destination | ||||
| 3 | depart | gerund | the youth not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
A thick cloth woven from the wool of sheep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloth | det |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cloth | amod |
| 3 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cloth | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 wool | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wool | det |
| 7 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woven | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sheep | case |
| 9 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wool | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | participle | a thick cloth not said here | the wool of sheep | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wool=Trajectory |
Option 2
A linen sack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sack | det |
| 2 | linen | linen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sack | amod |
| 3 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A heavy golden box lined with soft velvet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 box | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 box | amod |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 box | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 velvet | case |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 velvet | amod |
| 8 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lined | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | line | participle | a heavy golden box not said here | with soft velvet | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with velvet=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A thick cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloth | det |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cloth | amod |
| 3 | cloth | cloth | 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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