Exam question 4 · Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades…

Which tale begins in this passage immediately after the conclusion of the Halvor narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tale · What happens: begin, conclude · To what, where: passage, Halvor narrative

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1513 «Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades his horse for magic boots, reaches the castle and wins the bride» 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 tale	det
2	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begins	nsubj
3	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 passage	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 passage	det
6	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begins	obl
7	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	3 begins	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 conclusion	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 conclusion	det
10	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begins	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 narrative	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 narrative	det
13	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 narrative	compound
14	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conclusion	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 begins	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	present	which tale			this passage	after the conclusion of the Halvor narrative	immediately property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	conclude			the Halvor narrative					nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Tale of Prince Ivan and the Army

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tale	det
2	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Ivan	case
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ivan	compound
5	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tale	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Army	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Army	det
8	Army	Army	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ivan	conj

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

Option 2

The Falcon's Tale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Falcon	det
2	Falcon	Falcon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tale	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Falcon	case
4	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Death of Koshchei the Deathless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Death	det
2	Death	Death	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Koshchei	case
4	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Death	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Deathless	det
6	Deathless	Deathless	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Koshchei	appos

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

Option 4

Koshchei

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Koshchei	Koshchei	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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