Exam question 2 · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…
What did the King promise to the man who remained three nights in the haunted castle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: man · What happens: do, remain, haunt · To what, where: King promise, haunted castle
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 promise | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | compound |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 remained | nsubj |
| 10 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 nights | nummod |
| 12 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 remained | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 15 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 castle | amod |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remained | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the King promise | to the man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | the man | the haunted castle | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | |||
| 3 | haunt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 right answer
The hand of his daughter in marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hand | det |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 daughter | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 marriage | case |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Gold and land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 land | cc |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A royal feast for the whole town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 feast | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feast | amod |
| 3 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feast | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The hand of his son in marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hand | det |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 son | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 marriage | case |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | 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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