Exam question 2 · Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins h…

What was the designation of the flat stone beside the hedge?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: designation · What happens: be, designate · To what, where: flat stone

This is exam question 2 of lesson 239 «Yallery Brown, Yallery Brown, part 6: Tom's helper ruins his work and he gets the sack» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 designation	det
4	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 stone	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stone	det
7	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stone	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 designation	nmod
9	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 hedge	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hedge	det
11	hedge	hedge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stone	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the designation of the flat stone beside the hedge						tree rules
2	designate			the flat stone beside the hedge					nom designation «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

the Stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Stone	det
2	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the Table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Table	det
2	Table	Table	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Mourners' Bench

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mourners	det
2	Mourners	mourner	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Bench	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 Mourners	case
4	Bench	Bench	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the Strangers' Table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Strangers	det
2	Strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Table	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 Strangers	case
4	Table	Table	PROPN	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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