Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king…
What was the forfeit demanded by the Gruagach should the king fail to obtain the sword?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king fail, forfeit · What happens: be, demand, fail, obtain · To what, where: forfeit, sword
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1289 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king loses the last game and rides off to steal the sword» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 forfeit | det |
| 4 | forfeit | forfeit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fail | nsubj |
| 5 | demanded | demand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 forfeit | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 Gruagach | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Gruagach | det |
| 8 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 demanded | obl |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 fail | aux |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fail | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fail | compound |
| 12 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 obtain | mark |
| 14 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fail | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sword | det |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 obtain | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king fail | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | participle | the forfeit not said here | by the Gruagach | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fail | should | the forfeit | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | obtain | to-infinitive | the king fail not said here | the sword | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sword=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 · ✓ the right answer
the king's head and neck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 neck | cc |
| 6 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the king's shaggy horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 horse | amod |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the king's entire kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kingdom | amod |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the queen's golden harp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harp | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 queen | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 harp | amod |
| 5 | harp | harp | 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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