Exam question 1 · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…
What was discovered within the chest when it was opened by the woman?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: woman · What happens: discover, open · To what, where: chest
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | aux:pass |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 chest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 chest | det |
| 6 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | obl |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 opened | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | aux:pass |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 discovered | advcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 woman | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past · passive | within the chest | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | open | past · passive | the woman | chest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=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
Scorpions with glittering eyes and sharp claws
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Scorpions | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 claws | cc |
| 6 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 claws | amod |
| 7 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Scorpions | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Serpents with glittering eyes and forked tongues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Serpents | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tongues | cc |
| 6 | forked | fork | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tongues | amod |
| 7 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Serpents | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | fork | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Vipers with black eyes and hissing tongues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vipers | viper | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Vipers | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tongues | cc |
| 6 | hissing | hissing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tongues | compound |
| 7 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Vipers | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Snakes and bones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bones | cc |
| 3 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Snakes | conj |
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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