Exam question 4 · Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, t…
exam: What is the name by which the girl declares herself upon entering the royal kitchen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: exam, girl · What happens: be, declare, enter · To what, where: name, girl, royal kitchen
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1549 «Norse Tales, Kari Woodengown, part 46: the Bull's death, the cruel Prince, and Kari's glove and towel» 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 | exam | exam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
| 3 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 name | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 declares | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 declares | nsubj |
| 11 | declares | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | parataxis |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 declares | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 14 entering | mark |
| 14 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 declares | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kitchen | det |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 kitchen | amod |
| 17 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entering | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | exam | the name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | present | the girl | girl | by the name | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute | |||
| 3 | enter | gerund | the girl not said here | the royal kitchen | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kitchen=Destination |
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
Lisa Greycoat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Greycoat | Greycoat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Lisa | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Kari Woodengown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kari | Kari | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Woodengown | Woodengown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kari | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Kari Woodengown of the hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kari | Kari | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Woodengown | Woodengown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kari | flat |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hill | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hill | det |
| 5 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kari | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Kari Goldcloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kari | Kari | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Goldcloak | Goldcloak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kari | flat |
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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