Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a st…

Pursuant to the narrative, upon which eyelid did Dame Goody apply the ointment?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: eyelid · What happens: apply · To what, where: ointment, narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1974 «English Fairy Tales, Dame Goody, the pixy's ointment: a stolen look that costs an eye» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 narrative	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 apply	punct
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 which	case
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 apply	obl
8	eyelid	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 apply	nsubj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 apply	aux
10	Dame	Dame	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 apply	nsubj
11	Goody	Goody	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Dame	flat
12	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 narrative	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ointment	det
14	ointment	ointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 apply	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 narrative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apply	past · do-support	eyelid	the ointment		the narrative			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ointment=Theme upon which=Destination

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

her own right eyelid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyelid	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eyelid	amod
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eyelid	amod
4	eyelid	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the old pixy's eyelid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pixy	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pixy	amod
3	pixy	pixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eyelid	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 pixy	case
5	eyelid	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the baby's eyes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 baby	det
2	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eyes	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 baby	case
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

her own left eyelid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyelid	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eyelid	amod
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 eyelid	amod
4	eyelid	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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