Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' ques…

Indicate the material with which the Giant's guests were occupied in the gallery of the castle.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Giant guests · What happens: indicate, be · To what, where: material, gallery

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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	Indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 material	det
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Indicate	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 occupied	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guests	det
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 guests	amod
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Giant	case
9	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 occupied	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 occupied	cop
11	occupied	occupied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 material	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 gallery	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gallery	det
14	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 occupied	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 castle	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 castle	det
17	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gallery	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Indicate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	imperative	you not said here	the material					vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot material=Topic
2	is	past	the Giant guests			the gallery of the castle		with the material; occupied property	tree rules

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

woven silk and gilded cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 silk	amod
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cloth	cc
4	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cloth	amod
5	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 silk	conj

#	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
2	gild	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

tapestry and embroidered stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 stories	cc
3	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stories	amod
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 tapestry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embroider	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

tapestry and embroidered stories of the Fairies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 embroidered	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 embroidered	cc
3	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 embroidered	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Fairies	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fairies	det
7	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 stories	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embroider	past	tapestry	stories of the Fairies					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Product

Option 4

fine tapestry, silk and gold-thread embroidered stories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tapestry	amod
2	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 silk	punct
4	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tapestry	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thread	cc
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thread	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 gold	punct
8	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tapestry	conj
9	embroidered	embroider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 stories	amod
10	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tapestry	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	embroider	participle							vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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