Exam question 2 · pg7277, The Golden Blackbird, part 2: the stolen palace re…

Identify the object which the youthful gardener secured from the maid's hiding place and subsequently employed in order to effect his wish.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, object, maid · What happens: identify, gardener, secure, employ, wish · To what, where: object, youthful gardener, hiding place, effect

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1897 «pg7277, The Golden Blackbird, part 2: the stolen palace returns home, and the youngest son meets the hare and the Porcelain Maiden» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 gardener	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gardener	det
6	youthful	youthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gardener	amod
7	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 object	appos
8	secured	secure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 gardener	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	14 place	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maid	det
11	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 maid	case
13	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	compound
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 secured	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 employed	cc
16	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	_	17 employed	advmod
17	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 secured	conj
18	in	in	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	21 effect	case
19	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 in	fixed
20	to	to	PART	_	21 effect	mark
21	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 employed	obl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wish	nmod:poss
23	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 effect	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	gardener		the object				tree rules
3	secure	participle		the youthful gardener not said here	the maid's hiding place		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from place=Source
4	employ	participle			effect maid's wish	subsequently property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	wish		maid				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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

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 2

The old 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	old	old	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 3

A key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The snuff-box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
2	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snuff	punct
4	box	box	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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