Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daug…

Identify the substance in which the Princess's ring was discovered during the preparation of the loaf

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, discover, prepare · To what, where: substance, ring, loaf

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1903 «Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daughter hides in rags, works as a shepherdess, and wins a Prince with a lost ring.» 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 substance	det
3	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 discovered	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ring	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Princess	case
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 discovered	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 discovered	aux:pass
11	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 substance	acl:relcl
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 preparation	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 preparation	det
14	preparation	preparation	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 discovered	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 loaf	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 loaf	det
17	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 preparation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the substance			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme
2	discover	past · passive		the Princess's ring	the substance	during the preparation of the loaf	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	prepare			the loaf			nom preparation «act transitive»: of=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

the mixture of the cooking pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mixture	det
2	mixture	mixture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 pot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
5	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pot	compound
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mixture	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the dough of the small loaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dough	det
2	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 loaf	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 loaf	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 loaf	amod
6	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dough	nmod

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

Option 3

the batter of the great cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 batter	det
2	batter	batter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 cake	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cake	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cake	amod
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 batter	nmod

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the warm dough of the large loaf baked for the royal feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dough	det
2	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dough	amod
3	dough	dough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 loaf	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loaf	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 loaf	amod
7	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dough	nmod
8	baked	bake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 loaf	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 feast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feast	det
11	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feast	amod
12	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 baked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bake	participle		the large loaf not said here				for the royal feast	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for feast=Beneficiary

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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