Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kyn…
Upon what seat did the sovereign, King Arthur, recline within the great hall at Caerleon?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: seat, King Arthur · What happens: do, recline · To what, where: sovereign
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1324 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kynon meets the black giant and the fountain storm» 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 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 recline | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sovereign | det |
| 6 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Arthur | compound |
| 9 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 recline | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 recline | punct |
| 11 | recline | recline | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hall | amod |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 recline | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Caerleon | case |
| 17 | Caerleon | Caerleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hall | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 recline | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | seat | the sovereign | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recline | infinitive | King Arthur | within the great hall at Caerleon | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 floor | det |
| 2 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A carved high seat of oak beside the hearth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 seat | det |
| 2 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 seat | amod |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 seat | amod |
| 4 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 oak | case |
| 6 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seat | nmod |
| 7 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 9 hearth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hearth | det |
| 9 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seat | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A bench by the hearth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bench | det |
| 2 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 hearth | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hearth | det |
| 5 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bench | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A seat of green rushes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 seat | det |
| 2 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 rushes | case |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rushes | amod |
| 5 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seat | 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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