Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lady of the Fountain, part 49: Kyn…
Which object did Kynon employ to summon the thunder at the fountain beneath the tree?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: employ, summon · To what, where: thunder, fountain
This is exam question 4 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 employ | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 employ | aux |
| 4 | Kynon | Kynon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 employ | nsubj |
| 5 | employ | employ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 summon | mark |
| 7 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 employ | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thunder | det |
| 9 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 summon | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 fountain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fountain | det |
| 12 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 summon | obl |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 summon | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 employ | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · do-support | which object | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | summon | to-infinitive | which object not said here | the thunder | the fountain | beneath the tree | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Recipient |
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
A carved ivory horn filled with water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 horn | det |
| 2 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 horn | amod |
| 3 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 horn | compound |
| 4 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 horn | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| # | 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 | ||||||
| 2 | fill | participle | a carved ivory horn not said here | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A golden cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cup | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cup | amod |
| 3 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A silver bowl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bowl | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowl | compound |
| 3 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A great silver bowl filled with water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bowl | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bowl | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowl | compound |
| 4 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bowl | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | a great silver bowl not said here | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument |
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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