Exam question 4 · Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the B…

What is the approximate meaning of the term "sludge" as used in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: approximate meaning · What happens: be, use, mean · To what, where: approximate meaning, passage, term

This is exam question 4 of lesson 587 «Uncle Remus, Jacky-my-lantern: the blacksmith tricks the Bad Man and ends up as a light between heaven and earth» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 meaning	det
4	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 meaning	amod
5	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 term	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 term	det
8	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meaning	nmod
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sludge	punct
10	sludge	sludge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 term	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 sludge	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 used	mark
13	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 meaning	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 passage	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 passage	det
16	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the approximate meaning of the term			tree rules
2	use	participle		the approximate meaning of the term not said here	the passage	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	mean			the term		nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient

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

a heavy iron tool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tool	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tool	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tool	compound
4	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hammer	det
2	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mud	det
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a heavy sledge hammer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hammer	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hammer	amod
3	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hammer	compound
4	hammer	hammer	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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