Exam question 1 · Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the…

Upon what part of the sleeping man did the poisoned spirits of the jasmine inflict their wounds?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: poisoned spirits, spirits · What happens: do, poison, inflict, wound · To what, where: wounds

This is exam question 1 of lesson 822 «Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the wicked brother dies, the bees punish him, and the elves prepare a grand feast» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 part	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 part	det
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spirits	det
10	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 spirits	amod
11	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 inflict	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 jasmine	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 jasmine	det
14	jasmine	jasmine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spirits	nmod
15	inflict	inflict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 did	parataxis
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 wounds	nmod:poss
17	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 inflict	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			upon what part of the sleeping man	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	poison	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	inflict	present	the poisoned spirits of the jasmine	spirits's wounds		tree rules
4	wound		spirits = spirit			nom wound «state transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Upon the forehead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 forehead	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forehead	det
3	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

The ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ear	det
2	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Upon the tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 tongue	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tongue	det
3	tongue	tongue	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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