Exam question 3 · Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone t…

Identify the object which Quicksilver bestows upon Ulysses as protection against enchantment.

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, object · What happens: identify, bestow · To what, where: object

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2066 «Wonder Book, Circe's Palace, part 25: Ulysses goes alone to the palace and Quicksilver gives him a magic flower» 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 object	det
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 bestows	nsubj
5	Quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bestows	nsubj
6	bestows	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 object	acl:relcl
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 Ulysses	case
8	Ulysses	Ulysses	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bestows	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 protection	case
10	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bestows	obl
11	against	against	ADP	_	12 enchantment	case
12	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 protection	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the object					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme
2	bestow	present	the object					upon Ulysses; as protection against enchantment	tree rules

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 rare snow-white flower with a black root and golden petals.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flower	det
2	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flower	amod
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flower	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flower	amod
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 root	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 root	det
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 root	amod
10	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flower	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 petals	cc
12	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 petals	amod
13	petals	petal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 root	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flower	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A rare snow-white flower.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flower	det
2	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flower	amod
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flower	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 snow	punct
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flower	amod
6	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flower	punct

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A magic white flower root.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 root	det
2	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 root	amod
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 root	amod
4	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 root	compound
5	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 root	punct

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

Option 4

A white lily from the hills.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lily	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lily	amod
3	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hills	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hills	det
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lily	nmod
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lily	punct

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/2066-pg976-part25/e3/