Exam question 1 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, drea…

Of what material were the walls and ceiling of the old woman's dwelling constructed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material, ceiling · What happens: be, dwell, construct · To what, where: walls

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1789 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Nose, part 40: Jem sleeps, dreams for seven years, and finds his mother sad» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walls	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walls	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 walls	det
6	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 what	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ceiling	cc
8	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walls	conj
9	of	of	SCONJ	_	14 dwelling	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dwelling	parataxis
13	's	's	PART	_	12 woman	case
14	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 ceiling	acl
15	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 dwelling	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the walls and ceiling	tree rules
2	dwell	gerund	ceiling not said here		tree rules
3	construct	participle	ceiling not said here		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Clay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Painted tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tin	amod
2	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Marble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wood	wood	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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