Exam question 4 · Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl fal…
Which object first addressed the girl, requesting that she refrain from causing it harm?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: address, request, refrain, cause · To what, where: girl, it
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1150 «Crimson Fairy Book, The Two Caskets, part 16: the girl falls down the well and is kind to a fence, an oven and a cow, then finds work on a farm» 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 addressed | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 addressed | advmod |
| 4 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 addressed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 requesting | punct |
| 8 | requesting | request | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 addressed | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 refrain | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 refrain | nsubj |
| 11 | refrain | refrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 requesting | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 13 causing | mark |
| 13 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 refrain | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 causing | obj |
| 15 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 causing | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 addressed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | which object | the girl | first property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Destination | |||
| 2 | request | gerund | which object not said here | vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | refrain | infinitive | object | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cause | gerund | object not said here | it | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer it=Theme harm=Eventuality |
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
the gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gate | det |
| 2 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the oven in the kitchen corner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 oven | det |
| 2 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 corner | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 corner | det |
| 5 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 corner | compound |
| 6 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 oven | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the fence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fence | det |
| 2 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the old wooden fence by the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fence | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fence | amod |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fence | amod |
| 4 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fence | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1150-pg3027-part16/e4/