Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Giant's Soul, part 15: the king re…
Which creature first advised the king to eat, sleep, and be watched over?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: creature · What happens: advise, eat, watch over · To what, where: king
This is exam question 4 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 creature | det |
| 2 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advised | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 advised | advmod |
| 4 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 advised | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 king | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sleep | punct |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 watched | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 watched | cc |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 watched | aux:pass |
| 14 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 advised | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 watched | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 advised | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | which creature | the king and sleep | first property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | which creature not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch over | infinitive · passive | which creature not said here | over property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location» |
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 slim yellow dog that came first to the fire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 2 | slim | slim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dog | amod |
| 3 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dog | amod |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dog | acl:relcl |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the slim yellow dog | the fire | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fire=Initial_Location |
Option 2
the grey otter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 otter | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 otter | amod |
| 3 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the yellow dog that came from the wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dog | acl:relcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the yellow dog | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wood=Initial_Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the yellow dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | 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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