Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

Of what material was the vessel encountered upon the river composed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, encounter, compose · To what, where: vessel, river

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 encountered	obl
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 vessel	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vessel	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vessel	det
6	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	encountered	encounter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 river	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 river	det
10	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 encountered	obl
11	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 river	acl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 encountered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the vessel		tree rules
2	encounter	past			upon the river	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	compose	participle		the river not said here		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 right answer

White paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 paper	amod
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Wrought iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 iron	amod
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Woven reed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 reed	amod
2	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Polished oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 oak	amod
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	polish	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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