Exam question 4 · Roumanian Tales, The Norka, part 28: Prince Ivan slays the…
Which material did the beast's sister's palace consist of, in the order in which the Prince visited them?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: material, Prince · What happens: do, visit · To what, where: palace consist, order, them
This is exam question 4 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 material | det |
| 2 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beast | det |
| 5 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 beast | case |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 consist | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 sister | case |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 consist | compound |
| 10 | consist | consist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 consist | case |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 order | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 order | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 order | det |
| 15 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 visited | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 visited | nsubj |
| 20 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 order | acl:relcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 visited | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which material | the beast's sister's palace consist | the order | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consist=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | visit | past | the Prince | them = they | the order | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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 right answer
Copper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Polished red copper with green roof tiles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 copper | amod |
| 3 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Polished | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tiles | case |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tiles | amod |
| 6 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tiles | compound |
| 7 | tiles | tile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Polished | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | participle | red copper | with green roof tiles | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent copper=Destination with tile=Theme |
Option 4
Beaten copper inlaid with silver and precious gems
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 copper | amod |
| 2 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | inlaid | inlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 copper | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 silver | case |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inlaid | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gems | cc |
| 7 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gems | amod |
| 8 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 silver | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | inlay | participle | Beaten copper not said here | with silver and precious gems | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=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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