Exam question 1 · Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the k…

Which phrase best describes the Barmecide's hospitality to Schacabac?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase · What happens: describe · To what, where: hospitality

This is exam question 1 of lesson 356 «Book of Tales, Maximilian and the Goose Boy, part 1: the king naps under a tree and wakes at noon» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 phrase	det
2	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	nsubj
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 describes	advmod
4	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Barmecide	det
6	Barmecide	Barmecide	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hospitality	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Barmecide	case
8	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 describes	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Schacabac	case
10	Schacabac	Schacabac	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hospitality	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which phrase	the Barmecide's hospitality				to Schacabac; well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent hospitality=Theme to schacabac=be'

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

A lavish banquet of very real dishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 banquet	det
2	lavish	lavish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 banquet	amod
3	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 dishes	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 real	advmod
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dishes	amod
7	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 banquet	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A pretended feast of imaginary dishes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feast	amod
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 dishes	case
5	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dishes	amod
6	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feast	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	participle							tree rules

Option 3

Empty bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bread	amod
2	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A plain meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 meal	det
2	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 meal	amod
3	meal	meal	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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