Exam question 2 · Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts, A Lost Paradise: a…
What did the king require in exchange for the palace hospitality?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: do, require · To what, where: exchange
This is exam question 2 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 require | nsubj |
| 5 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 exchange | case |
| 7 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 require | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 hospitality | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hospitality | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hospitality | compound |
| 11 | hospitality | hospitality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exchange | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | require | present | the king | exchange for the palace hospitality | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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
Strict obedience to his commands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 obedience | amod |
| 2 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 commands | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 commands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 obedience | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | his = he | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
Complete and unquestioning obedience to all his royal commands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 unquestioning | cc |
| 3 | unquestioning | unquestion | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Complete | conj |
| 4 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 unquestioning | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 commands | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 commands | det:predet |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 commands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 commands | amod |
| 9 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 unquestioning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unquestion | gerund | obedience | to his royal commands | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | command | his = he | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
Careful service to the throne
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 service | amod |
| 2 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 throne | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 throne | det |
| 5 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 service | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Strict obedience to his every command and wish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 obedience | amod |
| 2 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 command | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 command | nmod:poss |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 command | det |
| 6 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 obedience | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wish | cc |
| 8 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 command | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | his = he | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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