Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh:…

Which material was the keel of the vessel constructed from, as stated in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, construct, state · To what, where: keel, narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1970 «English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh: Margaret is freed by three kisses, and the witch-queen becomes a toad» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 material	det
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keel	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keel	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 keel	det
5	keel	keel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 vessel	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 vessel	det
8	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keel	nmod
9	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 keel	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	9 constructed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stated	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 stated	mark
13	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 constructed	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 narrative	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 narrative	det
16	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stated	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	which material	the keel		of the vessel	tree rules
2	construct	participle		the keel not said here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	state speech: other	participle			the narrative		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Hard seasoned oak timber from the old forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 seasoned	advmod
2	seasoned	seasoned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 timber	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 timber	compound
4	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 forest	amod
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 timber	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rowan timber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rowan	rowan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 timber	compound
2	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Ash wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wood	compound
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Pine planks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 planks	compound
2	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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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