Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and h…
What was the composition of the garment Catskin donned for the second assembly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: composition · What happens: be, don
This is exam question 4 of lesson 263 «English Fairy Tales, Catskin: Catskin wins her lord, and her father is found» 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 | 9 donned | obj |
| 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 composition | det |
| 4 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 donned | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 garment | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garment | det |
| 7 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 composition | nmod |
| 8 | Catskin | Catskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 garment | appos |
| 9 | donned | don | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 assembly | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 assembly | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 assembly | amod |
| 13 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 donned | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 donned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | don | past | the composition of the garment | for the second assembly | vn simple_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 right answer
A coat of beaten gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coat | det |
| 2 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 4 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gold | amod |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coat | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
A cloak of blue velvet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 velvet | case |
| 4 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 velvet | amod |
| 5 | velvet | velvet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloak | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A dress of silver lace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dress | det |
| 2 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lace | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lace | amod |
| 5 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dress | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A gold cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloak | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cloak | compound |
| 3 | cloak | cloak | 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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