Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…

According to the narrative, what object did the ogress conceal within her body before she was made to expel it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ogress, object · What happens: accord, conceal, make, expel · To what, where: object, body

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1834 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is stolen and the cat sets out to win it back» 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 narrative	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conceal	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 did	obj
7	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 conceal	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ogress	det
10	ogress	ogress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conceal	nsubj
11	conceal	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	within	within	ADP	_	14 body	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 conceal	obl
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 made	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 made	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 made	aux:pass
18	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 conceal	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 expel	mark
20	expel	expel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 made	xcomp
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 expel	obj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 conceal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	conceal	past · do-support	the ogress		accord the narrative; within ogress's body	vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	past · passive		object		tree rules
4	expel	to-infinitive	object not said here	body		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 silver locket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def 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 3

the golden band

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the charmed ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	charmed	charm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charm	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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