Exam question 2 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls…

Which item did the cobbler propose as a protection for the boy's nose?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: item · What happens: propose

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1790 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, The Dwarf Nose, part 41: Mother calls Jem a dwarf, father forgets him» 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 item	det
2	item	item	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 propose	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 propose	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cobbler	det
5	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 propose	nsubj
6	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 protection	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 protection	det
9	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 propose	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 nose	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 nose	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 boy	case
14	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 propose	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 propose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	propose	past · do-support	which item					as a protection; for the boy's nose	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

a little case made of fine red leather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 case	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 case	amod
3	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 case	acl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 leather	case
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leather	amod
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 leather	amod
8	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a little case not said here				of fine red leather	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a strip of red cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 strip	det
2	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cloth	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloth	amod
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 strip	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a case of red leather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 case	det
2	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 leather	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 leather	amod
5	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 case	nmod

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

Option 4

a plate of red iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plate	det
2	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 iron	case
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 iron	amod
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 plate	nmod

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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