Exam question 3 · pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is t…
What reward did the sovereign tender in exchange for the creature?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do · To what, where: sovereign tender, exchange
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1462 «pg503, Whittington and His Cat, part 49: a hungry boy is taken in, buys a cat, and sends her to sea» 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 | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | reward | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tender | det |
| 5 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tender | compound |
| 6 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 exchange | case |
| 8 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 creature | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 creature | det |
| 11 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exchange | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the sovereign tender | exchange for the creature | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tender=Eventuality |
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
A great palace with all its gardens and a thousand servants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 palace | amod |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 gardens | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 gardens | det:predet |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gardens | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 palace | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 servants | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thousand | det |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 servants | nummod |
| 11 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gardens | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Half of the kingdom and the princess's hand in marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 kingdom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Half | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hand | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 princess | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Half | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 marriage | case |
| 11 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hand | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Rich silks and rubies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 silks | amod |
| 2 | silks | silk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rubies | cc |
| 4 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 silks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Gold and jewels
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 jewels | cc |
| 3 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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