Exam question 3 · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magi…
What did Tiidu fashion from rushes after discovering the island?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do, discover · To what, where: Tiidu fashion, rushes, island
This is exam question 3 of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Tiidu | Tiidu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fashion | compound |
| 4 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 rushes | case |
| 6 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obl |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 discovering | mark |
| 8 | discovering | discover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 did | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discovering | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Tiidu fashion | rushes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fashion=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | discover | gerund | the island | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic |
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 right answer
A basket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 basket | det |
| 2 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A rope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A chair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chair | det |
| 2 | chair | chair | 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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