Exam question 3 · Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a…
What appeared upon Lizina's forehead after she turned towards the cock?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lizina · What happens: appear, turn · To what, where: forehead
This is exam question 3 of lesson 720 «Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a star, but greedy Peppina gets a donkey's tail» 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 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 forehead | case |
| 4 | Lizina | Lizina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Lizina | case |
| 6 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appeared | obl |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 turned | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appeared | advcl |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 cock | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cock | det |
| 12 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turned | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 appeared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Lizina's forehead | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon forehead=Location | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | Lizina | towards the cock | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards cock=Trajectory |
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
A glowing golden crown above her eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crown | det |
| 2 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 crown | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crown | amod |
| 4 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crown | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A golden star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 star | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 star | amod |
| 3 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A pale cross
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cross | det |
| 2 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cross | amod |
| 3 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A bright golden star above her brow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 star | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 star | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 star | amod |
| 4 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | above | above | ADP | _ | 7 brow | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 star | nmod |
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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