Exam question 3 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three ho…
Which reward was offered to whoever ascended the glass hill?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: whoever · What happens: offer, ascend · To what, where: reward, glass hill
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1491 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad, part 78: three horses caught and a knight on the glass hill» 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 reward | det |
| 2 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 offered | aux:pass |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ascended | case |
| 6 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ascended | nsubj |
| 7 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 offered | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hill | det |
| 9 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hill | compound |
| 10 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ascended | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 offered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past · passive | which reward | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ascend | past | whoever | the glass hill | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory |
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 hand of the Princess and half the kingdom along with her father's crown
The tree, 15 words
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 Princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kingdom | cc |
| 7 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 9 kingdom | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | conj |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 15 crown | case |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 crown | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 father | nmod:poss |
| 13 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crown | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 father | case |
| 15 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kingdom | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | Princess's father | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The hand of the Princess and half the kingdom
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 Princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kingdom | cc |
| 7 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 9 kingdom | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Marriage to the Princess and her gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Princess | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Marriage | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gold | cc |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gold | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Princess | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The hand of the Princess in marriage and half of the whole kingdom's riches
The tree, 15 words
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 Princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | nmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 marriage | case |
| 7 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 half | cc |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 marriage | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 riches | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kingdom | det |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kingdom | amod |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 riches | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 kingdom | case |
| 15 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 half | 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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