Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old wom…

What material did the Hyacinths' narrative associate with the three maidens' attire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: do · To what, where: narrative associate

This is exam question 3 of lesson 289 «Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 16: Gerda in the old woman's garden asks the flowers about Kay» 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	3 did	obj
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hyacinths	det
5	Hyacinths	hyacinth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 associate	nmod:poss
6	'	's	PART	_	5 Hyacinths	case
7	narrative	narrative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 associate	amod
8	associate	associate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	14 attire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 maidens	det
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 maidens	nummod
12	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 attire	nmod:poss
13	'	's	PART	_	12 maidens	case
14	attire	attire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	material	the Hyacinths's narrative associate				with the three maidens's attire	tree rules

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

Wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Cotton of green and gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 green	case
3	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cotton	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 gold	cc
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cotton	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Silk of red, blue, and white

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 red	case
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Silk	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blue	punct
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 red	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 white	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 white	cc
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 red	conj

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

Option 4

Red silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 silk	amod
2	silk	silk	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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