Exam question 3 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

Which garment did Ludovine instruct the soldier to retrieve from the first closet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garment · What happens: instruct, retrieve · To what, where: soldier, first closet

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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 garment	det
2	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 instruct	aux
4	Ludovine	Ludovine	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	nsubj
5	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 instruct	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 retrieve	mark
9	retrieve	retrieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 instruct	advcl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 closet	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 closet	det
12	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 closet	amod
13	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 retrieve	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 instruct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · do-support	which garment	the soldier					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient
2	retrieve	to-infinitive	which garment not said here			the first closet			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from closet=Source

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

A tunic of orange velvet with silver buttons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tunic	det
2	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 velvet	case
4	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 velvet	amod
5	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tunic	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 buttons	case
7	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buttons	compound
8	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 velvet	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A tunic of orange velvet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A shirt of green silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A long tunic of orange velvet from the first closet of the tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tunic	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tunic	amod
3	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 velvet	case
5	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 velvet	amod
6	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tunic	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 closet	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 closet	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 closet	amod
10	closet	closet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 velvet	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tower	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tower	det
13	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 closet	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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