Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sword of Light, part 14: the king…
In what manner did the king draw the sword from its sheath within the chamber?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: king · What happens: draw · To what, where: sword, manner
This is exam question 2 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draw | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 draw | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draw | nsubj |
| 7 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sword | det |
| 9 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draw | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 sheath | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draw | obl |
| 13 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 chamber | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chamber | det |
| 15 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 draw | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 draw | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · do-support | the king | the sword | what manner | from sword's sheath; within the chamber | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in manner=Destination |
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
slowly and softly, without noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 softly | cc |
| 3 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 1 slowly | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 slowly | punct |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 noise | case |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 slowly | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
by cutting through the case
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 cutting | mark |
| 2 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 case | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 case | det |
| 5 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cutting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | gerund | through the case | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through case=Patient |
Option 3
by striking the sheath sharply
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 striking | mark |
| 2 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sheath | det |
| 4 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 striking | obj |
| 5 | sharply | sharply | ADV | _ | 2 striking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | gerund | the sheath | sharply property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheath=Patient |
Option 4
by pulling it out in haste
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 pulling | mark |
| 2 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 pulling | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 pulling | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 haste | case |
| 6 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pulling | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | gerund | it | haste | tree rules |
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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