Exam question 4 · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 38: the A…

From what source was the figure-head carved?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: carve · To what, where: figure head

This is exam question 4 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 carved	obl
3	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carved	aux:pass
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
6	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 figure	punct
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carved	nsubj
9	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 carved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carve	past · passive		the figure head					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from what=Material

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 piece of the sacred grove

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 grove	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grove	det
5	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grove	amod
6	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	nmod

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

Option 2

An oak log

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 log	det
2	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 log	compound
3	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A branch of the Talking Oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 branch	det
2	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 Oak	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Oak	det
5	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Oak	compound
6	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 branch	nmod

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

Option 4

A fallen leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	participle							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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