Exam question 1 · Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5…

Which object did the narrator employ as a pillow, according to the text?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: employ, accord · To what, where: text

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1754 «Wonder Tales, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, part 5: the boy loses his cake and his head, then Mark the Rich plots against a baby» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 employ	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrator	det
5	narrator	narrator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	nsubj
6	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 pillow	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pillow	det
9	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 according	punct
11	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 employ	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 text	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 text	det
14	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 according	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 employ	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	employ	past · do-support	which object					as a pillow	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as pillow=Attribute
2	accord	gerund	which object not said here					to the text goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to text=Goal

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

a plain leather satchel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 satchel	det
2	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 satchel	amod
3	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 satchel	compound
4	satchel	satchel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a plait of his own hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plait	det
2	plait	plait	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 hair	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plait	nmod

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

Option 3

the folded woollen cloak his grandmother had sewn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cloak	det
2	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cloak	amod
3	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cloak	amod
4	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grandmother	nmod:poss
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sewn	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sewn	aux
8	sewn	sew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cloak	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fold	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sew	past · perfect · passive	the folded woollen cloak not said here	his grandmother					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

a plait of his own hair tied with thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plait	det
2	plait	plait	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 hair	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plait	nmod
7	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 thread	case
9	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle · passive		a plait of his own hair				with thread	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with thread=Co-Patient

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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