Exam question 1 · Ancient times and famous stories

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning the appearance of ancient Greek statuary at the time of its creation.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts, statuary · What happens: select, be, establish, concern, create · To what, where: response, appearance

This is exam question 1 of lesson 21 «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 appearance	det
13	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 statuary	case
15	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 statuary	amod
16	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 statuary	amod
17	statuary	statuary	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 appearance	nmod
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 creation	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 creation	nmod:poss
23	creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response			with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle					vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the appearance of ancient Greek statuary	time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus appearance=Experiencer
5	create		statuary				nom creation «act 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

It was exclusively painted black

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 painted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	aux:pass
3	exclusively	exclusively	ADV	_	4 painted	advmod
4	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 painted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		It				black, exclusively property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 2

It was invariably left as unpainted white marble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux:pass
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 marble	case
6	unpainted	unpaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 marble	amod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 marble	amod
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · passive		It				as unpainted white marble; invariably property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	unpaint	participle							tree rules

Option 3

It was uniformly gilded with gold leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gilded	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gilded	aux:pass
3	uniformly	uniformly	ADV	_	4 gilded	advmod
4	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 leaf	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leaf	compound
7	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gilded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gild	past · passive		It				with gold leaf; uniformly property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with leaf=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was frequently painted in vivid colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 painted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	aux:pass
3	frequently	frequently	ADV	_	4 painted	advmod
4	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 colours	case
6	vivid	vivid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 colours	amod
7	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		It		vivid colours		frequently property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in colour=Destination

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