Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, Elsa and Kisika, part 2: Elsa is taken into a…

Identify the figure whom the lady of the house instructs to construct a replica of Elsa for dispatch to her native village.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, lady · What happens: identify, instruct, construct · To what, where: figure, replica

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1751 «Fairy Tales, Elsa and Kisika, part 2: Elsa is taken into a magic garden, sails a sea made from a shell, and becomes a new 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 figure	det
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 instructs	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 instructs	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lady	nmod
10	instructs	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 figure	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 construct	mark
12	construct	construct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 instructs	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 replica	det
14	replica	replica	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 construct	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Elsa	case
16	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 replica	nmod
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 dispatch	case
18	dispatch	dispatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 replica	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 village	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 village	nmod:poss
21	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 village	amod
22	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 construct	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the figure		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
2	instruct speech: other	present	the lady of the house	the figure		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic
3	construct	to-infinitive	the lady of the house not said here	a replica of Elsa	for dispatch; to lady's native village	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent replica=Result for dispatch=Beneficiary

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 · ✓ the right answer

The old man with the long beard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 beard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beard	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beard	amod
7	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod

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

Option 2

The shy stable boy with the broken leg who sleeps near the gate of the house

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
2	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
3	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boy	amod
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 leg	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 leg	det
7	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 leg	amod
8	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 sleeps	nsubj
10	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boy	acl:relcl
11	near	near	ADP	_	13 gate	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gate	det
13	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleeps	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 house	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gate	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	sleep	present	the shy stable boy with the broken leg			the gate of the house			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The young man with the red hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 hat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hat	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hat	amod
7	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod

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

Option 4

The old man with the long beard who lives in the workshop by the garden wall

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 beard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beard	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beard	amod
7	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lives	nsubj
9	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 beard	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 workshop	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 workshop	det
12	workshop	workshop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lives	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 wall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wall	det
15	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wall	compound
16	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the long beard			the workshop		by the garden wall	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in workshop=Location

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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