Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144:…

Of what material was the club carried by Zephyr fashioned?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: material · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: club

This is exam question 3 of lesson 933 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144: the lost prince shelters in the Winds' cave and hears the North and West Winds tell their adventures» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	material	material	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 club	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 club	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 club	det
6	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 club	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 Zephyr	case
9	Zephyr	Zephyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obl
10	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Zephyr	amod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	material	the club					tree rules
2	carry	participle		the club not said here				by Zephyr	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Mahogany, cut from a tree in American forests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forests	case
8	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forests	amod
9	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle · passive		Mahogany		a tree		in American forests	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from tree=Material

Option 2

Birch, cut from a tree in Norway's forests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 forests	case
8	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 forests	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Norway	case
10	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle · passive		Birch		a tree		in Norway's forests	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from tree=Material

Option 3

Mahogany, cut from a tree in the deep American forests of the south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mahogany	mahogany	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 forests	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forests	det
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forests	amod
10	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 forests	amod
11	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 south	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 south	det
14	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 forests	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle · passive		Mahogany		a tree		in the deep American forests of the south	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from tree=Material

Option 4

Oak, cut from a tree in English forests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cut	punct
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cut	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 forests	case
8	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 forests	compound
9	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	participle · passive		Oak		a tree		in English forests	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from tree=Material

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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