Exam question 4 · A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast…
To what location were the transformed creatures ultimately conducted?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: transform, conduct · To what, where: transformed creatures
This is exam question 4 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 conducted | obl |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 conducted | aux:pass |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 creatures | det |
| 6 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 creatures | amod |
| 7 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 conducted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | ultimately | ultimately | ADV | _ | 9 conducted | advmod |
| 9 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 conducted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | participle | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | conduct | past · passive | the transformed creatures | ultimately property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to what=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
The long dirty back yard behind the grand palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 yard | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yard | amod |
| 3 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 yard | amod |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yard | compound |
| 5 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 8 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 palace | amod |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yard | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The palace back yard where the hogs were kept
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 yard | advmod |
| 4 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 palace | conj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 kept | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hogs | det |
| 7 | hogs | hog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | aux:pass |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 palace | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · passive | the hogs | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
The castle courtyard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 courtyard | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 courtyard | compound |
| 3 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The palace back yard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yard | compound |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 palace | advmod |
| 4 | yard | yard | 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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