Exam question 1 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of c…

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the sequence in which the Fairy's attempts to destroy the fugitives are recounted?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: follow, describe, destroy, recount, attempt · To what, where: sequence, fugitives, attempts

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1710 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Fairy, part 34: a bridge of clouds, a duck, a vanishing church and a boar» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 describes	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 describes	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 describes	advmod
8	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sequence	det
10	sequence	sequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 describes	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 recounted	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairy	det
14	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 attempts	nmod:poss
15	's	's	PART	_	14 Fairy	case
16	attempts	attempt	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 recounted	nsubj:pass
17	to	to	PART	_	18 destroy	mark
18	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 attempts	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fugitives	det
20	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 destroy	obj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 recounted	aux:pass
22	recounted	recount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sequence	acl:relcl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	describe	present		the sequence		of the following statements; accurately property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sequence=Theme
3	destroy	to-infinitive		the fugitives			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fugitive=Patient
4	recount speech: other	present · passive		the Fairy's attempts	the sequence		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	attempt		the Fairy				nom attempt «act transitive»: poss=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

sand, dagger, gold nuts, wood, church

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dagger	punct
3	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sand	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nuts	punct
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nuts	compound
6	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sand	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wood	punct
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sand	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 church	punct
10	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sand	conj

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

Option 2

church, wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wood	punct
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 church	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

sand, gold nuts, dagger, church, wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 nuts	punct
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nuts	compound
4	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sand	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dagger	punct
6	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sand	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 church	punct
8	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sand	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wood	punct
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sand	conj

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

Option 4

sand, nuts, dagger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 nuts	punct
3	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sand	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dagger	punct
5	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sand	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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