Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…
Which wind did the girl ride in order to reach the North Wind's dwelling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wind · What happens: do, ride, reach, dwell · To what, where: girl
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1420 «Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 7: the North Wind carries her to the castle, and the shirt goes wrong» 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 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 reach | mark |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 in | fixed |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 reach | mark |
| 10 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ride | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Wind | det |
| 12 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Wind | compound |
| 13 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Wind | case |
| 15 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 reach | advcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which wind | the girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ride | infinitive | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | dwell | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice
The West Wind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The East
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 East | det |
| 2 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The South Wind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 2 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Wind | compound |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The warm wind that blew from the south sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wind | amod |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 blew | nsubj |
| 5 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wind | acl:relcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 8 | south | South | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the warm wind | from the south sea | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from sea=Co-Patient |
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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