Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's bl…

What was the first substance the old woman observed when she lifted the lid of the object?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: be, observe, lift · To what, where: first substance, lid

This is exam question 1 of lesson 243 «English Fairy Tales, The Hedley Kow: a poor old woman's black pot turns from gold to silver to iron to stone, and then into a horse-sized kow» 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	5 substance	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 substance	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 substance	det
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 substance	amod
5	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 observed	nsubj
9	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 substance	acl:relcl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 lifted	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lifted	nsubj
12	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 observed	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lid	det
14	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lifted	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 object	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 object	det
17	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lid	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 substance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the first substance	tree rules
2	observe	past	the old woman	the first substance not said here	tree rules
3	lift	past	woman	the lid of the object	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme

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

coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

copper pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pieces	compound
2	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

gold coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coins	compound
2	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gold	gold	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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