Exam question 1 · Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the…

Which colour of fish was not mentioned in the account of the catch?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not mention, account · To what, where: colour, account, catch

This is exam question 1 of lesson 167 «Arabian Nights, The Fisherman and the Genius, part 7: the Greek king dies of poisoned pages, then the magic fish burn in the kitchen» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mentioned	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fish	case
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mentioned	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 mentioned	advmod
7	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 account	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 account	det
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mentioned	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 catch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 catch	det
13	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 account	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mentioned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mention speech: other	past · passive		which colour of fish		the account of the catch			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
2	account			the catch					nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

yellow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

bright yellow and blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 yellow	amod
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 blue	cc
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 yellow	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	green	green	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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