Exam question 3 · Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11:…
Describe the object which the giant required Ian Direach to obtain before the falcon could be released.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, giant · What happens: describe, require, obtain, release · To what, where: object, falcon
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1145 «Fairy Book, How Ian Direach Got the Blue Falcon, part 11: the fox tricks the wolf, and Ian gets a hard task» 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 | Describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Describe | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 required | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 required | nsubj |
| 7 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 object | acl:relcl |
| 8 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 required | obj |
| 9 | Direach | Direach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ian | flat |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 obtain | mark |
| 11 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 required | xcomp |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 released | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 falcon | det |
| 14 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 released | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 released | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 released | aux:pass |
| 17 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 obtain | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Describe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | imperative | you not said here | the object | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 2 | require | past | the giant | the object | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | obtain | to-infinitive | the giant not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 4 | release | could · passive | the falcon | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source |
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
A golden cage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cage | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cage | amod |
| 3 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The White Sword of Light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sword | det |
| 2 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Sword | amod |
| 3 | Sword | Sword | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Light | case |
| 5 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Sword | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The blue falcon's nest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 falcon | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 falcon | amod |
| 3 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nest | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 falcon | case |
| 5 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A boat of silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 silver | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boat | nmod |
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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