Exam question 1 · Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wif…

Which garment, in addition to a shirt, did the shoemaker's wife make for the elves?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garment, wife · What happens: do, make

This is exam question 1 of lesson 763 «Household Tales, The Juniper Tree, part 1: a childless wife wishes for a red-and-white child, and her stepson's life turns dark» 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 garment	det
2	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 addition	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 addition	case
5	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 garment	appos
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 shirt	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shirt	det
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 addition	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 garment	punct
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shoemaker	det
12	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 shoemaker	case
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 make	nsubj
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 did	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 elves	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 elves	det
18	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which garment						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	the shoemaker's wife					for the elves	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for elf=Beneficiary

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

Socks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A coat and waistcoat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 coat	det
2	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 waistcoat	cc
4	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 coat	conj

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

Option 3

Trousers and a cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trousers	trousers	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cap	cc
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cap	det
4	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trousers	conj

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

Option 4

Jacket and breeches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 breeches	cc
3	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Jacket	conj

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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