Exam question 2 · fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: t…

Which creature did the maiden identify as the old man's grandmother, and what was its chief characteristic?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: do, be · To what, where: maiden identify, chief characteristic

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1764 «fairy tales, The Prince in the Old Man's House, part 15: the prince is set a hay task and tricks a horse and a cow» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 identify	det
5	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 identify	amod
6	identify	identify	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	12 grandmother	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grandmother	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 man	case
12	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 characteristic	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 characteristic	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 characteristic	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 characteristic	cop
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 characteristic	nmod:poss
18	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 characteristic	amod
19	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which creature	the maiden identify				as the old man's grandmother	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identify=Eventuality
2	is a	past		creature's chief characteristic					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

The white horse, which was always hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hungry	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 hungry	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hungry	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 hungry	advmod
8	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the white horse					always, hungry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The white mare, always lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mare	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mare	amod
3	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lazy	punct
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 lazy	advmod
6	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mare	amod

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

Option 3

The grey horse, always thirsty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
2	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	amod
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thirsty	punct
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 thirsty	advmod
6	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 horse	conj

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

Option 4

The black cow, always calm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cow	det
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cow	amod
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 calm	punct
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 calm	advmod
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cow	conj

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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