Exam question 1 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's map…

Which colour were the raven's horses and carriage upon her final arrival?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour · What happens: be, arrive

This is exam question 1 of lesson 772 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Raven, part 48: a giant's maps, a glass mountain, a magic stick» 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 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 were	nsubj
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 raven	det
5	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horses	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 raven	case
7	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 were	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 carriage	cc
9	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horses	conj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 arrival	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arrival	nmod:poss
12	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 arrival	amod
13	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carriage	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	which colour						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	arrive		colour						nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

White

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Jet black with silver trim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jet	jet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Jet	amod
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 trim	case
4	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trim	compound
5	trim	trim	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 black	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Dark grey with a gilded carriage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grey	amod
2	grey	grey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 carriage	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 carriage	det
5	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 carriage	amod
6	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grey	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gild	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

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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