Exam question 4 · Andersen, The Flower Vase and The Elfin Hill, part 33: the…
What substance was employed to fumigate the elfin chambers in preparation for the assembly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: employ, fumigate · To what, where: elfin chambers, preparation
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 employed | aux:pass |
| 4 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fumigate | mark |
| 6 | fumigate | fumigate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 employed | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chambers | det |
| 8 | elfin | elfin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chambers | compound |
| 9 | chambers | chamber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fumigate | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 preparation | case |
| 11 | preparation | preparation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fumigate | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 assembly | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 assembly | det |
| 14 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fumigate | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 employed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · passive | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | fumigate | to-infinitive | the elfin chambers | preparation | for the assembly | tree rules |
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
Burnt feathers and sheep's hooves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 feathers | amod |
| 2 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hooves | cc |
| 4 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hooves | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 sheep | case |
| 6 | hooves | hoove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feathers | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Burnt horse-hair and pig's bristles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hair | amod |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hair | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 horse | punct |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bristles | cc |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bristles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 pig | case |
| 8 | bristles | bristle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hair | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Incense
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Dried thyme and rotten goose fat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dried | dried | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thyme | amod |
| 2 | thyme | thyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fat | cc |
| 4 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fat | amod |
| 5 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fat | compound |
| 6 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thyme | 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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