Exam question 4 · pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl,…
Which material was employed to line the basket in which the doll was placed?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: employ, line, place · To what, where: material, basket, doll
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1767 «pg641, Dotterine, part 18: a magic egg grows into a girl, and the queen dies» 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 material | det |
| 2 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 employed | aux:pass |
| 4 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 line | mark |
| 6 | line | line | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 employed | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 basket | det |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 line | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 placed | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 doll | det |
| 12 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 placed | aux:pass |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 basket | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 employed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · passive | which material | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | line | to-infinitive | the basket | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme basket=Destination | |||||
| 3 | place | past · passive | the doll | the basket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination |
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
soft wool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wool | amod |
| 2 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
fine cotton
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cotton | amod |
| 2 | cotton | cotton | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
linen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
silk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | silk | silk | 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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