Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…
Which of the following accurately identifies the material from which the hall's pillars were constructed?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, identify, construct · To what, where: material, pillars
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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 | 4 following | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 following | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 following | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 6 identifies | advmod |
| 6 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 following | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 material | det |
| 8 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 identifies | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 constructed | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hall | det |
| 12 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pillars | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 hall | case |
| 14 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 constructed | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 constructed | aux:pass |
| 16 | constructed | construct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 material | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 following | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | identify | present | the material | accurately property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent material=Theme | ||||
| 3 | construct | past · passive | the hall's pillars | the material | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from which=Material |
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 right answer
Gold and silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 silver | cc |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Hollowed pearls, gold and silver crystal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hollowed | hollow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pearls | amod |
| 2 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gold | punct |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pearls | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crystal | cc |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crystal | compound |
| 7 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hollow | participle | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Iron and bronze
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bronze | cc |
| 3 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Iron | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Polished gold and carved silver from the far east
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carved | advcl |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Polished | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 carved | cc |
| 4 | carved | carve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carved | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 east | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 east | det |
| 8 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 east | amod |
| 9 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | participle | gold | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent gold=Destination | |||||
| 2 | carve | past | silver | the far east | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset silver=Product from east=Material |
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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