Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…
What penalty did the king stipulate should the boy fail in his quest?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: penalty, king · What happens: do, stipulate, fail, quest · To what, where: quest
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» 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 | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | penalty | penalty | 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 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fail | nsubj |
| 6 | stipulate | stipulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 king | acl:relcl |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fail | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fail | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fail | compound |
| 10 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 quest | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 quest | nmod:poss |
| 13 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fail | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | penalty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stipulate | infinitive | the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fail | should | the king | king's quest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | quest | king | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=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
banishment from the realm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | banishment | banishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 realm | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 realm | det |
| 4 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 banishment | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
imprisonment for life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imprisonment | imprisonment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 life | case |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 imprisonment | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
forfeiture of his head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forfeiture | forfeiture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 head | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 forfeiture | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forfeit | his head | nom forfeiture «possession transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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