Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs…

Which phrase best describes the hussars that issued from the silver apple in the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: phrase, hussars · What happens: describe, issue · To what, where: hussars, silver apple

This is exam question 4 of lesson 664 «Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs catch a hairy thief, and a prince gets three magic apples» 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 hussars	det
6	hussars	hussar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 describes	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 issued	nsubj
8	issued	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hussars	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 apple	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 apple	det
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 apple	compound
12	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 issued	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 narrative	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 narrative	det
15	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 issued	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which phrase	the hussars				well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hussar=Theme
2	issue	past	the hussars			the silver apple		in the narrative	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in narrative=Location

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

The loudest drummers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drummers	det
2	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 drummers	amod
3	drummers	drummer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The swiftest farm hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hands	det
2	swiftest	swift	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 hands	amod
3	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hands	compound
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The most beautiful hussars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hussars	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 beautiful	advmod
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hussars	amod
4	hussars	hussar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

The humblest cooks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cooks	det
2	humblest	humble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 cooks	amod
3	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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