Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…
Identify the object the smith was instructed to drive into the horse's mouth.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, object · What happens: identify, instruct, drive · To what, where: object, smith, mouth
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smith | det |
| 5 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 instructed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 instructed | aux:pass |
| 7 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 object | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drive | mark |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 instructed | xcomp |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drive | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the object | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | past · passive | the object not said here | the smith | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drive | to-infinitive | the object not said here | the horse's mouth | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into mouth=Trajectory |
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
A hot metal bar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bar | det |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bar | amod |
| 3 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bar | compound |
| 4 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A cold iron rod
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 rod | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rod | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rod | compound |
| 4 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A nail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 nail | det |
| 2 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A red-hot nail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 nail | det |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hot | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 red | punct |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nail | amod |
| 5 | nail | nail | 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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