Exam question 3 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

In what form did the mare conceal herself among the foxes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mare · What happens: conceal · To what, where: mare

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 conceal	obl
3	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 conceal	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mare	det
6	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conceal	nsubj
7	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 conceal	obj
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 foxes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 foxes	det
11	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 conceal	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conceal	past · do-support	the mare	mare				among the foxes	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in what=Location

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

as a fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	3 fox	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

as a hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	3 hen	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hen	det
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

as a grey owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	4 owl	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 owl	det
3	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 owl	amod
4	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

as a big fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADP	_	4 fox	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fox	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fox	amod
4	fox	fox	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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