Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, Elsa and Kisika, part 2: Elsa is taken into a…

State the substance which the lady extracts from Elsa by means of a tiny golden needle.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lady · What happens: extract, mean · To what, where: State substance, Elsa

This is exam question 3 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	State	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 substance	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 extracts	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 extracts	nsubj
7	extracts	extract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 substance	acl:relcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 Elsa	case
9	Elsa	Elsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 extracts	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 means	case
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 extracts	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 needle	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 needle	det
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 needle	amod
15	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 needle	amod
16	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 means	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 substance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	extract	present	the lady	the State substance		Elsa			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent which=Theme from elsa=Initial_Location
2	mean	present	the lady not said here					of a tiny golden needle	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V 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

A small sample of her tears collected in a golden cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sample	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sample	amod
3	sample	sample	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 collected	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tears	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tears	nmod:poss
6	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sample	nmod
7	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 cup	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cup	det
10	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cup	amod
11	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 collected	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	past	a small sample of sample's tears			a golden cup			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sample			sample's tears					nom sample «cognition transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A drop of blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drop	det
2	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 blood	case
4	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drop	nmod

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

Option 3

A bit of hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hair	case
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A drop of her blood taken from her arm with a needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 drop	det
2	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 blood	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 blood	nmod:poss
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drop	nmod
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 drop	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 arm	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 arm	nmod:poss
9	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 needle	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 needle	det
12	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	participle		a drop of her blood not said here		her arm		with a needle	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from arm=Initial_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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