Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: th…

Which of the three suitors presented himself last at the gilded hut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: present, gild · To what, where: himself, gilded hut

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1444 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Master-maid, part 31: the Prince forgets his promise, and three suitors are tricked» 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	6 presented	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 suitors	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 suitors	det
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 suitors	nummod
5	suitors	suitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 presented	nsubj
6	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 presented	obj
8	last	last	ADV	_	6 presented	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 hut	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hut	det
11	gilded	gild	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 hut	amod
12	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 presented	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 presented	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	present	past		himself = he		the gilded hut		last property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	gild	participle							vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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 attorney

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 attorney	det
2	attorney	attorney	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The third man, who came on the last and final day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	12 day	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 final	cc
11	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 last	conj
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the third man				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The bailiff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bailiff	det
2	bailiff	bailiff	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The bride's own brother, who arrived with the coach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bride	det
2	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bride	case
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brother	amod
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 arrived	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 arrived	nsubj
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 coach	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 coach	det
11	coach	coach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the bride's own brother					with the coach	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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