Exam question 2 · Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befri…

What material was the kettle hung upon the hob, as described in the passage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, hang, describe · To what, where: kettle, hob, passage

This is exam question 2 of lesson 788 «Grimm, Snow-White and Rose-Red, part 64: two sisters befriend a bear and free a dwarf from a tree» 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	6 hung	nsubj
2	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kettle	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kettle	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kettle	det
5	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	acl:relcl
6	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 hob	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hob	det
9	hob	hob	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hung	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 described	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 described	mark
12	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hung	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 passage	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 passage	det
15	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 described	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hung	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the kettle		tree rules
2	hang	past			the hob	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon hob=Location
3	describe	participle			the passage	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

Silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Brass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Copper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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