Exam question 3 · Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wi…

What was the colour of the boughs of the cypress tree in the sun meadow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: colour

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1784 «Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wild horses and wins the princess with a magic knife.» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 colour	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 colour	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 boughs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boughs	det
7	boughs	bough	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 colour	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
10	cypress	cypress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boughs	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 meadow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meadow	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meadow	compound
15	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 colour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the colour				of the boughs of the cypress tree in the sun meadow	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 · ← Mova's choice

Shining silver, bright in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shining	shine	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 bright	advcl
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shining	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shining	punct
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sun	det
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bright	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	gerund		silver					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=Theme

Option 2

Pure silver, glinting in the sunlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silver	amod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 glinting	punct
4	glinting	glint	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 silver	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 sunlight	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sunlight	det
7	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glinting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glint	gerund	Pure silver not said here			the sunlight			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Crystal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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