Exam question 2 · A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast…

Which implement did the enchantress employ to effect the transformation?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: implement · What happens: do · To what, where: enchantress employ

This is exam question 2 of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» 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 implement	det
2	implement	implement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 employ	det
5	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employ	compound
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 effect	mark
8	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 transformation	det
10	transformation	transformation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 effect	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which implement	the enchantress employ					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality

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

A jeweled ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	jeweled	jewel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jewel	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A slender rod

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rod	det
2	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rod	amod
3	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A thin wand of ivory and gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wand	det
2	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wand	amod
3	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 ivory	case
5	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wand	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gold	cc
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wand	conj

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

Option 4

A silver spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spoon	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spoon	compound
3	spoon	spoon	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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