Exam question 2 · pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills…

Identify the substance from which the castle of the witch's daughter was constructed, as stated in the passage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, construct, state · To what, where: substance, castle, passage

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1708 «pg640 Tales, The Youngest Brother and the Witch: he kills the witch, saves the children and wins his bride» 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 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 constructed	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 constructed	nsubj:pass
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 daughter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 witch	det
10	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 daughter	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 witch	case
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 castle	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 constructed	aux:pass
14	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 substance	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stated	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 stated	mark
17	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 constructed	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 passage	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 passage	det
20	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stated	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the substance		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	construct	past · passive		the castle of the witch's daughter	the substance	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from which=Material
3	state speech: other	participle			the passage	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

Brass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Copper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iron	iron	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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