Exam question 2 · Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a…

Which material did Antonio Canova employ for the sculpture presented at the banquet?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: do, present · To what, where: Antonio employ, sculpture, banquet

This is exam question 2 of lesson 360 «Heroic Children, Charney's Plant, part 20: a boy dies on a burning ship, a poor boy carves a butter lion, a prisoner finds a seed» 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 material	det
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	Antonio	Antonio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 employ	compound
5	Canova	Canova	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Antonio	flat
6	employ	employ	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 sculpture	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sculpture	det
9	sculpture	sculpture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sculpture	acl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 banquet	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 banquet	det
13	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 presented	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which material	Antonio employ				for the sculpture	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality
2	present	participle		the sculpture not said here		the banquet			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «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

Clay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yellow butter from the dairy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 butter	amod
2	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 dairy	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dairy	det
5	dairy	dairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 butter	nmod

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

Option 3

Yellow clay from the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clay	amod
2	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 clay	nmod

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

Option 4

Yellow butter carefully collected from the dairy of the Count's estate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 butter	amod
2	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collected	nsubj:pass
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 collected	advmod
4	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 dairy	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dairy	det
7	dairy	dairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collected	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 estate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Count	det
10	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 estate	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Count	case
12	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dairy	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	participle · passive		Yellow butter		the dairy of the Count's estate		carefully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from dairy=Source

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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