Exam question 3 · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

What did the King's daughter receive from the blue bull's left ear?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: receive · To what, where: left ear

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	7 receive	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 receive	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 King	det
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 King	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 receive	nsubj
7	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	from	from	ADP	_	14 ear	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bull	det
10	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bull	amod
11	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ear	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 bull	case
13	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ear	amod
14	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 receive	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 receive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past · do-support	the King's daughter			the blue bull's left ear			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent what=Theme from ear=Source

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

a bell that rang loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bell	det
2	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 rang	nsubj
4	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bell	acl:relcl
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 rang	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	past	a bell					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a cloth that supplied food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloth	det
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 supplied	nsubj
4	supplied	supply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cloth	acl:relcl
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 supplied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	supply	past	a cloth	food					vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Recipient

Option 3

a horse that flew fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 horse	acl:relcl
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	a horse					fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

a golden ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	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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