Exam question 4 · Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and…

Which description most accurately characterises the conditions of Jurgen's confinement at the castle?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: description, Jurgen · What happens: characteris, condition, confine · To what, where: conditions, confinement, castle

This is exam question 4 of lesson 966 «Jurgen, Jurgen, part 177: Jurgen leaves Martin's house and is jailed for Martin's murder» 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 description	det
2	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 characterises	nsubj
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 accurately	advmod
4	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	5 characterises	advmod
5	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 conditions	det
7	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 characterises	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 confinement	case
9	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 confinement	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Jurgen	case
11	confinement	confinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conditions	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 castle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 castle	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 confinement	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	characteris	present	which description	the conditions of Jurgen's confinement at the castle		accurately property	tree rules
2	condition			Jurgen's confinement at the castle			nom condition «state transitive»: of=patient
3	confine		Jurgen		the castle		nom confinement «state transitive»: poss=agent at=place

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

a dark vaulted cellar with a narrow air-hole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cellar	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cellar	amod
3	vaulted	vaulted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cellar	amod
4	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 hole	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hole	det
7	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hole	amod
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hole	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 air	punct
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cellar	nmod

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

Option 2

a dark vaulted cellar with a narrow air-hole and a heavy iron door

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cellar	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cellar	amod
3	vaulted	vaulted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cellar	amod
4	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 hole	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hole	det
7	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hole	amod
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hole	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 air	punct
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cellar	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 door	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 door	det
13	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 door	amod
14	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	compound
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hole	conj

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

Option 3

a dark vaulted cellar with a narrow air-hole, cold stone walls and straw

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cellar	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cellar	amod
3	vaulted	vaulted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cellar	amod
4	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 hole	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hole	det
7	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hole	amod
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hole	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 air	punct
10	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cellar	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walls	punct
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 walls	amod
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 walls	compound
14	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hole	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 straw	cc
16	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hole	conj

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

Option 4

a stone room with one small lamp and bench

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 room	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 room	compound
3	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 lamp	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 lamp	nummod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lamp	amod
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 room	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bench	cc
9	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lamp	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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