Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the sw…

Identify the item that the swallow restored to Dotterine after she had left it behind at the palace gate.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, swallow · What happens: identify, restore, leave · To what, where: item, Dotterine, palace gate

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1768 «Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the swallow and the secret princess; a new tale begins» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 item	det
3	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 restored	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swallow	det
6	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 restored	nsubj
7	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 Dotterine	case
9	Dotterine	Dotterine	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 restored	obl
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	13 left	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 left	aux
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 restored	advcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obj
15	behind	behind	ADV	_	13 left	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 gate	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gate	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gate	compound
19	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 left	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the item				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme
2	restore	past	the swallow		Dotterine			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to dotterine=Recipient
3	leave	past · perfect	swallow	item		the palace gate	behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at gate=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

A ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ring	det
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The wooden spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spoon	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spoon	amod
3	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The magic basket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 basket	det
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 basket	compound
3	basket	basket	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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