Exam question 3 · Irish Fairy Tales, Seven Inches, part 18: the sisters go d…
What condition did the king impose for the youngest princess's hand in marriage?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: impose · To what, where: marriage
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 condition | det |
| 2 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impose | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 impose | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impose | nsubj |
| 6 | impose | impose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 9 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 princess | amod |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 princess | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impose | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 marriage | case |
| 14 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 impose | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 impose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impose | past · do-support | what condition | marriage | for the youngest princess's hand | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=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
Three crowns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 crowns | nummod |
| 2 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Presentation of three crowns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Presentation | presentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 crowns | case |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 crowns | nummod |
| 4 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Presentation | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | three crowns | nom presentation «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
Supply of silver crowns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 crowns | case |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crowns | compound |
| 4 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Supply | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Presentation of three crowns of gold, silver and copper to the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Presentation | presentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 crowns | case |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 crowns | nummod |
| 4 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Presentation | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crowns | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 silver | punct |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Presentation | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 copper | cc |
| 10 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Presentation | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Presentation | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | three crowns of gold | to the king | nom presentation «act transitive»: of=patient to=obl | |||||
| 2 | crown | gold | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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