Exam question 1 · Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer…
Which character, having been concealed within a tree, completed the embroidery of the blue garment?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: character · What happens: conceal, complete, embroider · To what, where: character, embroidery, blue garment
This is exam question 1 of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» 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 character | det |
| 2 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 completed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 concealed | punct |
| 4 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 concealed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 concealed | aux:pass |
| 6 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 character | acl:relcl |
| 7 | within | within | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 concealed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 character | punct |
| 11 | completed | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 embroidery | det |
| 13 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 completed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 garment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 garment | det |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 garment | amod |
| 17 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 embroidery | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 completed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | gerund · perfect · passive | which character not said here | within a tree | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 2 | complete | past | which character | the embroidery of the blue garment | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embroidery=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | embroider | the blue garment | nom embroidery «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
Ulf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ulf | Ulf | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the prince's stepmother Blauvor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 prince | case |
| 4 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Blauvor | Blauvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stepmother | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Lineik
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the old man who owned the fowl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 owned | nsubj |
| 5 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fowl | det |
| 7 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 owned | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past | the old man | the fowl | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fowl=Theme |
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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