Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ri…

Which property distinguished the golden flask from the silver flask?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: property · What happens: distinguish · To what, where: golden flask

This is exam question 3 of lesson 691 «Fairy Book, The Land of Immortality: the prince rides a ring to the world's end and finds a queen who wakes» 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 property	det
2	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 distinguished	nsubj
3	distinguished	distinguish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flask	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flask	amod
6	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 distinguished	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 flask	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flask	det
9	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flask	compound
10	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 distinguished	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 distinguished	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	distinguish	past	which property	the golden flask				from the silver flask	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent flask=Theme from flask=Co-Theme

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

It kept the queen awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 queen	det
4	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	It	the queen				awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It restored the dead to life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 restored	nsubj
2	restored	restore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dead	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 restored	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 restored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	restore	past	It	the dead	life				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent dead=Theme to life=Recipient

Option 3

It turned metal into gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	It	metal		gold			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent metal=Theme into gold=Trajectory

Option 4

It made the drinker young again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 drinker	det
4	drinker	drinker	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
6	again	again	ADV	_	2 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It	the drinker			again	young property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material drinker=Product

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