Exam question 2 · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the…

Of what material was the cord held by the hero during the combat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: cord

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2049 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 8: Theseus kills the Minotaur, follows Ariadne's thread out, and sails away with the captives» 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	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cord	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cord	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cord	det
6	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cord	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 hero	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hero	det
10	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obl
11	during	during	ADP	_	13 combat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 combat	det
13	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the cord					tree rules
2	hold	participle		the cord not said here			during the combat	by the hero	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hero=Location

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

silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

wax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

linen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rope	rope	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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