Exam question 2 · Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a gra…

Of what material had the original rope of the bell been constructed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material, original rope · What happens: have, construct · To what, where: original rope, bell

This is exam question 2 of lesson 349 «Historic Tales, The Bell of Atri: an old horse pulls a grape-vine, the bell of justice rings, and the judges make the greedy miser share his gold» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rope	det
6	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rope	amod
7	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 constructed	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bell	det
10	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 constructed	nsubj:pass
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 constructed	aux:pass
12	constructed	construct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 rope	acl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	material	the original rope					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient
2	construct	participle · passive	the original rope not said here	the bell					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result

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

Iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Braided silk fiber from the East

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Braided	braid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fiber	amod
2	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fiber	compound
3	fiber	fiber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 East	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 East	det
6	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fiber	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	braid	participle							vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hemp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hemp	hemp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Strong twisted cotton and linen threads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cotton	amod
2	twisted	twisted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cotton	amod
3	cotton	cotton	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 threads	cc
5	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threads	compound
6	threads	thread	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cotton	conj

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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