Exam question 1 · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…
Which object did the king expressly forbid the couple to uncover?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, forbid, uncover · To what, where: king, couple
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1286 «Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a hungry couple is given a palace, then loses it by lifting a lid» 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 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | expressly | expressly | ADV | _ | 7 forbid | advmod |
| 7 | forbid | forbid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 couple | det |
| 9 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forbid | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 uncover | mark |
| 11 | uncover | uncover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 couple | acl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | forbid | infinitive | the couple | expressly property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer couple=Theme | ||||
| 3 | uncover | to-infinitive | the couple not said here | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The soup-tureen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tureen | det |
| 2 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tureen | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 soup | punct |
| 4 | tureen | tureen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The golden coach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coach | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 coach | amod |
| 3 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The green bath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bath | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bath | amod |
| 3 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Plate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plate | plate | 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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