Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…

According to the giant's second statement, where was his soul located?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: soul, giant · What happens: accord, be, locate, state · To what, where: soul

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1290 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king reaches his wife, but the giant's soul stays hidden» 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	According	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 statement	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 According	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 statement	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 giant	case
6	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 statement	amod
7	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 located	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 statement	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 soul	advmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 soul	cop
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 soul	nmod:poss
12	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 located	nsubj
13	located	locate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 located	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		giant's soul		tree rules
3	locate	participle	giant's soul		accord the giant's second statement	tree rules
4	state		the giant			nom statement «communication transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

upon the threshold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	upon	upon	ADP	_	3 threshold	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 threshold	det
3	threshold	threshold	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

inside the iron box

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 box	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 box	compound
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	outside	outside	ADV	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	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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