Exam question 3 · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part…

Which character in the narrative is correctly identified as the one who transmits the advice of the snuff-box spirit to the prince before his departure?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one, his · What happens: identify, transmit, depart · To what, where: character, advice

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1294 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part 1: Toueno-Boueno catches a wolf by the tail and sells it as a ram, and the wolf ruins the brothers' sheep» 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 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 identified	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 narrative	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 narrative	det
5	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 character	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 identified	aux:pass
7	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	8 identified	advmod
8	identified	identify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 one	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 identified	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 transmits	nsubj
13	transmits	transmit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 one	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 advice	det
15	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 transmits	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 spirit	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spirit	det
18	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 box	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 snuff	punct
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spirit	compound
21	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 advice	nmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 prince	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 prince	det
24	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spirit	nmod
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 departure	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 departure	nmod:poss
27	departure	departure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 transmits	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 identified	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	identify	present · passive		which character in the narrative		as the one; correctly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as one=Attribute
2	transmit	present	the one	the advice of the box spirit to the prince	before his departure		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme
3	depart		his = he				nom departure «act intransitive»: 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

The little spirit who lives in the snuff-box at the forge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spirit	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spirit	amod
3	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spirit	acl:relcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 box	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 box	det
8	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 box	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snuff	punct
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 forge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forge	det
13	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the little spirit			the snuff box		at the forge	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in box=Location

Option 2

The elder prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 prince	det
2	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 prince	amod
3	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Seven Inches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Inches	nummod
2	Inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The smith's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 smith	det
2	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 smith	case
4	son	son	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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