Exam question 2 · Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches…

What substance was the Prince directed to cast forth in order to raise a mountain across the sea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance, Prince · What happens: be, direct, cast, raise · To what, where: order, mountain, sea

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1443 «Norse Tales, The Master-Maid, part 30: the Prince fetches the taxes and tricks the giant» 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	6 directed	obj
2	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 directed	nsubj
6	directed	direct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cast	mark
8	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 directed	xcomp
9	forth	forth	ADV	_	8 cast	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 order	case
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cast	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 raise	mark
13	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 cast	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mountain	det
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raise	obj
16	across	across	ADP	_	18 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raise	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 directed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	substance				tree rules
2	direct	past	the Prince				tree rules
3	cast	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here		order	forth property	vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in order=Destination
4	raise	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	a mountain	the sea		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme across sea=Destination

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

the bag of gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 gold	case
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a sack of sand and salt from the shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 sand	case
4	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sack	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 salt	cc
6	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sack	conj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 shore	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shore	det
9	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sack	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the lump of salt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lump	det
2	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 salt	case
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lump	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the piece of bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 piece	det
2	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bread	case
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 piece	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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