Exam question 2 · Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after…
Which two items did the brother permit his sister to retain from the household goods?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two items, brother · What happens: do, permit, retain · To what, where: sister, household goods
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1308 «Tales from Many Lands, The One-Handed Girl, part 1: after the parents die, a sister's pot and pumpkins bring her luck until her envious brother steals the pot» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | obj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 items | nummod |
| 3 | items | item | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 permit | nsubj |
| 7 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 permit | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 retain | mark |
| 11 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 permit | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 goods | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 goods | det |
| 14 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 goods | compound |
| 15 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 retain | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | two items | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | permit | infinitive | the brother | brother's sister | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer sister=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | retain not said to happen | to-infinitive | the brother not said here | the household goods | 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
A bowl and a basket of beans
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bowl | det |
| 2 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 basket | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bowl | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 beans | case |
| 7 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 basket | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A small pot and a vessel for corn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pot | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pot | amod |
| 3 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 vessel | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 vessel | det |
| 6 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pot | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 corn | case |
| 8 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pot | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A small pot, a vessel for corn, and the well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pot | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pot | amod |
| 3 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 vessel | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 vessel | det |
| 6 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pot | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 corn | case |
| 8 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vessel | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 well | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 well | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 well | det |
| 12 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pot | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A mat and a basket for grain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mat | det |
| 2 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 basket | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 basket | det |
| 5 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mat | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 grain | case |
| 7 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 basket | nmod |
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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