Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to C…

Of what metal, according to the account of the master, was the figure known as Talus composed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: accord, be, know, compose, account · To what, where: figure, Talus, master

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» 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	_	3 metal	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 metal	nsubj
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 figure	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 account	punct
5	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 account	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 according	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 account	det
8	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 metal	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 master	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 master	det
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 account	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 metal	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 figure	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 figure	det
15	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 figure	acl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 composed	mark
18	Talus	Talus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 composed	nsubj:pass
19	composed	compose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 known	xcomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 figure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the figure	of metal and the account of the master	tree rules
3	know	participle	the figure not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	compose	participle · passive	Talus		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
5	account		the master		nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

bronze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

tin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

brass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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