Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, East of the Sun and West of…
Which party was the first to discover the Princess's deception concerning the sleeping-drink?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: party, deception, Princess · What happens: be, discover, concern, deceive · To what, where: deception, sleeping drink
This is exam question 4 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 party | det |
| 2 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 first | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 first | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 first | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 discover | mark |
| 7 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 first | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 deception | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Princess | case |
| 11 | deception | deception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discover | obj |
| 12 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 deception | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drink | det |
| 14 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drink | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sleeping | punct |
| 16 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 concerning | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 first | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | which party | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discover | to-infinitive | the Princess's deception | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deception=Topic | |||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | the Princess's deception not said here | the sleeping drink | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus drink=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | deceive | the Princess | nom deception «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 troll-hag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hag | det |
| 2 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hag | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 troll | punct |
| 4 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Christian folk held captive in the adjacent chamber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 folk | amod |
| 2 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 captive | amod |
| 4 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 folk | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 chamber | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chamber | det |
| 7 | adjacent | adjacent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chamber | amod |
| 8 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 folk | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The kitchen maids who were working below
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 maids | det |
| 2 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maids | compound |
| 3 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 working | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 working | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 working | aux |
| 6 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | below | below | ADV | _ | 6 working | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · progressive | the kitchen maids | below property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The guards who stood outside the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 guards | acl:relcl |
| 5 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the guards | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside door=Location |
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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