Exam question 2 · Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats se…
Which object does the wind name as greater than himself?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: wind name
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1227 «Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats seek the greatest husband» 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 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 5 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | compound |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 greater | case |
| 8 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 does | obl |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 greater | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | which object | the wind name | as greater | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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
rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rock | rock | 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 wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wall | det |
| 2 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the great mountain beside the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mountain | amod |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mountain | 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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