Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…

Which of the following describes the colour of the plums John first ate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: John · What happens: follow, be, eat · To what, where: plums

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 colour	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	7 colour	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 colour	case
5	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 colour	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 colour	det
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 plums	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plums	det
10	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 colour	nmod
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ate	nsubj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 ate	advmod
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 plums	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 colour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present			of the colour; of the plums	tree rules
3	eat	past	John	the plums not said here	first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plum=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

gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

red as blood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 blood	case
3	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 red	obl

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

Option 3

pale as milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 milk	case
3	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pale	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yellow as gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 gold	case
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yellow	obl

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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