Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…
Which object did the protagonist discover concealed within the antiquated chest?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, protagonist · What happens: do, discover, conceal, antiquate · To what, where: protagonist
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» 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 | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 protagonist | det |
| 5 | protagonist | protagonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 protagonist | acl:relcl |
| 7 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 protagonist | acl |
| 8 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 chest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chest | det |
| 10 | antiquated | antiquate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 chest | amod |
| 11 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concealed | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the protagonist | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent protagonist=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | discover | present | the protagonist not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | conceal | participle | the protagonist not said here | within the antiquated chest | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | antiquate | participle | tree rules |
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 ledger of the village's family accounts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ledger | det |
| 2 | ledger | ledger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 accounts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 village | det |
| 5 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accounts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 village | case |
| 7 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 accounts | compound |
| 8 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ledger | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | account | the village | nom account «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A gold key
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 key | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 key | compound |
| 3 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A document recording an outstanding debt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 document | det |
| 2 | document | document | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | recording | record | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 document | acl |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 debt | det |
| 5 | outstanding | outstanding | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 debt | amod |
| 6 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recording | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | gerund | a document not said here | a outstanding debt | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debt=Theme |
Option 4
A paper listing unpaid coins owed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 listing | det |
| 2 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listing | compound |
| 3 | listing | listing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | unpaid | unpaid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coins | amod |
| 5 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 listing | conj |
| 6 | owed | owe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 coins | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | participle | unpaid coins not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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