Exam question 1 · Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go d…
Which object did Seven Inches give the youngest prince to summon his assistance?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, Seven Inches · What happens: do, give, summon, assist · To what, where: youngest prince, assistance
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1293 «Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go down the well, and the prince forges three crowns» 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Inches | nummod |
| 5 | Inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 prince | amod |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 summon | mark |
| 11 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 give | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 13 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 summon | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | present | Seven Inches | the youngest prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 3 | summon | to-infinitive | Seven Inches not said here | object's assistance | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistance=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | assist | object | nom assistance «act 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
A box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 box | det |
| 2 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A snuff-box
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 2 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 box | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 snuff | punct |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A brass bell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bell | det |
| 2 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bell | compound |
| 3 | bell | bell | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1293-pg3454-part18/e1/