Exam question 2 · Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved,…
What substance did the prisoner employ as ink in the composition of his petition?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: do, petition · To what, where: prisoner employ, composition
This is exam question 2 of lesson 361 «Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved, and Mignon dances» 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 | substance | substance | 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 | 6 employ | det |
| 5 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | compound |
| 6 | employ | employ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 ink | case |
| 8 | ink | ink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 composition | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 composition | det |
| 11 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 petition | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 petition | nmod:poss |
| 14 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 composition | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | substance | the prisoner employ | the composition of substance's petition | as ink | tree rules | ||
| 2 | petition | substance | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=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
wine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
charcoal with milk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 milk | case |
| 3 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 charcoal | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
soot mixed with water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 soot | acl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mixed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix | participle | soot not said here | with water | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with water=Co-Patient |
Option 4
berry juice in oil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 juice | compound |
| 2 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 oil | case |
| 4 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 juice | nmod |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/361-pg18442-part21/e2/