Exam question 1 · Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the…
Pursuant to the King's proclamation, what reward was offered to the person who destroyed the Norka?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person, King · What happens: offer, destroy, proclaim · To what, where: proclamation, person, Norka
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1531 «Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the Norka underground and brings his sisters up» 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 | Pursuant | pursuant | ADV | _ | 6 proclamation | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 proclamation | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 proclamation | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 King | case |
| 6 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 offered | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 offered | aux:pass |
| 11 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 proclamation | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 person | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 offered | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 destroyed | nsubj |
| 16 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 person | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Norka | det |
| 18 | Norka | Norka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 destroyed | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 proclamation | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past · passive | the King's proclamation | the person | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to person=Goal | ||||
| 2 | destroy | past | the person | the Norka | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent norka=Patient | ||||
| 3 | proclaim | the King | nom proclamation «communication transitive»: poss=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
One half of the kingdom and a palace full of gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 half | nummod |
| 2 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 kingdom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kingdom | det |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 half | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 palace | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kingdom | conj |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 palace | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 coins | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coins | compound |
| 12 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
One third of the treasury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 third | nummod |
| 2 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 treasury | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 treasury | det |
| 5 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 third | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
One half of the kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 half | nummod |
| 2 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 kingdom | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kingdom | det |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 half | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Half the royal city
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 city | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 city | det |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 city | amod |
| 4 | city | city | NOUN | 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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