Exam question 1 · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6:…
Which of the following objects did the first old woman bestow upon the girl as a token of assistance?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, bestow · To what, where: objects
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1419 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 6: the girl lights a candle, the prince flees, and she searches the winds» 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 | 11 bestow | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 woman | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 woman | csubj |
| 5 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 following | obj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 woman | aux |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 woman | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bestow | obl |
| 11 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 girl | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bestow | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 token | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 token | det |
| 17 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bestow | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 assistance | case |
| 19 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 token | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 bestow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | objects | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bestow | infinitive | of the first old woman; upon the girl; as a token of assistance | 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 golden comb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 comb | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comb | amod |
| 3 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a silver thimble
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thimble | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thimble | amod |
| 3 | thimble | thimble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a golden apple and a bag of gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 apple | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apple | amod |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bag | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bag | det |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 apple | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 coins | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coins | compound |
| 9 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bag | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a golden apple
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 apple | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apple | amod |
| 3 | apple | apple | 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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