Exam question 2 · Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lie…
To whom did the sacks of coin rightfully belong according to the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sacks · What happens: do, belong, accord
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1234 «Eastern Tales, Fortune and the Wood-Cutter: a lazy man lies in bed while his mules bring home gold» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 whom | case |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 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 sacks | det |
| 5 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 belong | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 coin | case |
| 7 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sacks | nmod |
| 8 | rightfully | rightfully | ADV | _ | 9 belong | advmod |
| 9 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 10 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 narrative | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 according | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 narrative | det |
| 13 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 belong | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | belong | present | the sacks of coin | accord the narrative; rightfully property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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
To the soldiers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 soldiers | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldiers | det |
| 3 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
To the sultan
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 sultan | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sultan | det |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
To the sultan's treasury in the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 treasury | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sultan | det |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 sultan | case |
| 5 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treasury | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
To the wood-cutter and his wife together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 cutter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cutter | det |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cutter | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wood | punct |
| 5 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wife | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cutter | conj |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 wife | advmod |
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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