Exam question 3 · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 38: the A…

What device was depicted at the centre of the shield borne by the figure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: depict, bear · To what, where: device, centre, shield

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2079 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 38: the Argo gets a talking figure-head and the heroes gather» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 depicted	obj
2	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 depicted	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 depicted	aux:pass
4	depicted	depict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 centre	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 centre	det
7	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 depicted	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 shield	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shield	det
10	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 centre	nmod
11	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 shield	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 figure	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 figure	det
14	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 borne	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 depicted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depict	past · passive		device		the centre of the shield			tree rules
2	bear	participle		the shield not said here				by the figure	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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

A lion's head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 head	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lion	case
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Zeus's thunderbolt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zeus	Zeus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thunderbolt	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Zeus	case
3	thunderbolt	thunderbolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The head of Medusa

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 head	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Medusa	case
4	Medusa	Medusa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 head	nmod

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

Option 4

An eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	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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