Exam question 3 · Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats se…
What is the daughter's stated preference regarding a husband?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stated preference, daughter · What happens: be, state, regard, prefer
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 preference | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 daughter | case |
| 6 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 preference | amod |
| 7 | preference | preference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 8 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 husband | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 husband | det |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 preference | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the daughter's stated preference regard a husband | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | state speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | prefer | the daughter | regard a husband | nom preference «feeling transitive»: poss=agent regard=obl |
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
the wealthy old rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rat | det |
| 2 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rat | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rat | amod |
| 4 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the handsome young rat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rat | det |
| 2 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rat | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rat | amod |
| 4 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the fine rich suitor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 suitor | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 suitor | amod |
| 3 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 suitor | amod |
| 4 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the handsome young rat from the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rat | det |
| 2 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rat | amod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rat | amod |
| 4 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rat | 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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