Exam question 1 · Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood…

In the tale, what colour are the garments worn by the outlaws of Sherwood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tale · What happens: be, wear · To what, where: garments

This is exam question 1 of lesson 344 «Old English Tales, Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale: Robin Hood helps a sad young man win back his bride from a rich old suitor» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 tale	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tale	det
3	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 garments	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 colour	punct
5	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	6 colour	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tale	appos
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 garments	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 garments	det
9	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 garments	acl
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 outlaws	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 outlaws	det
13	outlaws	outlaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 worn	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Sherwood	case
15	Sherwood	Sherwood	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 outlaws	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 garments	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the tale	the garments					tree rules
2	wear	participle		the garments not said here				by the outlaws of Sherwood	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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

Red

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Brown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Tan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tan	Tan	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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