Exam question 3 · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…
To what did the messenger attribute the king's hasty retreat?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: messenger · What happens: attribute · To what, where: hasty retreat
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 attribute | obl |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 attribute | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 messenger | det |
| 5 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attribute | nsubj |
| 6 | attribute | attribute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 retreat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 retreat | amod |
| 11 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attribute | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 attribute | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | past · do-support | the messenger | the king's hasty retreat | tree rules |
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
A giant brandishing a tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 3 | brandishing | brandish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 tree | amod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brandish | gerund | tree rules |
Option 2
A giant brandishing a huge uprooted tree over his head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tree | amod |
| 3 | brandishing | brandish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 tree | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tree | amod |
| 6 | uprooted | uproot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tree | amod |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brandish | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | uproot | participle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
A charging army of giants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 army | det |
| 2 | charging | charge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 army | amod |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 giants | case |
| 5 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 army | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charge | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
A flood of angry soldiers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flood | det |
| 2 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 soldiers | case |
| 4 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soldiers | amod |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flood | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flood | angry soldiers | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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