Exam question 4 · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…

Which instrument was to be sounded first in times of danger according to the magician?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: danger · What happens: sound, accord · To what, where: instrument, magician

This is exam question 4 of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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 instrument	det
2	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sounded	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sounded	aux:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	6 sounded	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 sounded	aux:pass
6	sounded	sound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 sounded	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 times	case
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sounded	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 danger	case
11	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 times	nmod
12	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 danger	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 magician	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 magician	det
15	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 according	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sounded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past · passive		which instrument			time	first property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	accord	gerund	danger not said here					to the magician goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to magician=Goal

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

The fiddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fiddle	det
2	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The zither

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 zither	det
2	zither	zither	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flute	det
2	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The drum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drum	det
2	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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