Exam question 1 · Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Peasant, part 42: Martin's…

Of what material was the palace constructed, as stated in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material, palace · What happens: be, construct, state · To what, where: passage

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1718 «Russian Fairy Tales, Martin the Peasant, part 42: Martin's mother goes to the King to woo his daughter» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 constructed	obj
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 constructed	nsubj
7	constructed	construct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stated	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 stated	mark
10	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 constructed	advcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 passage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 passage	det
13	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stated	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 constructed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	is	past	material		tree rules
2	construct	past	the palace		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	state speech: other	participle	the palace not said here	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

brick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

porphyry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

granite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	granite	granite	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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