Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

By what instrument did Blacky sever the cords binding his siblings?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Blacky, cords · What happens: sever, bind · To what, where: cords, siblings

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1887 «Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded in the kettle» 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	By	by	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 sever	obj
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sever	aux
5	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sever	nsubj
6	sever	sever	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cords	det
8	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sever	obj
9	binding	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 cords	acl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 siblings	nmod:poss
11	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 binding	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sever	past · do-support	Blacky	the cords					tree rules
2	bind	gerund	the cords not said here	Blacky's siblings					vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sibling=Patient

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

His sharp teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 teeth	nmod:poss
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 teeth	amod
3	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

A knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A sharp stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A thorn bush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bush	det
2	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bush	compound
3	bush	bush	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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