Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales (pg540), The Golden Branch, Three Dwarfs begin…
With reference to the text, which of the following correctly identifies the agreed destination of the Mice and the travellers?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, identify, agree · To what, where: agreed destination
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1558 «Fairy Tales (pg540), The Golden Branch, Three Dwarfs begins: the Cricket and the Grasshopper reach the Golden Branch and are freed, and a stepmother sends her stepdaughter into the snow» 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 reference | case |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 identifies | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 text | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 text | det |
| 5 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reference | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 identifies | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 identifies | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 identifies | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 identifies | det |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 identifies | nsubj |
| 11 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 12 identifies | advmod |
| 12 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 destination | det |
| 14 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 destination | amod |
| 15 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 identifies | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Mice | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mice | det |
| 18 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 destination | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 travellers | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 travellers | det |
| 21 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Mice | conj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | identify | present | the agreed destination of the Mice and the travellers | with reference to the text; correctly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent destination=Theme | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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
The Golden Branch at the top of the hill beyond the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Branch | det |
| 2 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Branch | amod |
| 3 | Branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Branch | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hill | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hill | det |
| 9 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| 10 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hill | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The Silver Palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Palace | det |
| 2 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Palace | compound |
| 3 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Golden Branch in the far garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Branch | det |
| 2 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Branch | amod |
| 3 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 6 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 garden | amod |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Branch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Golden Branch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Branch | det |
| 2 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Branch | amod |
| 3 | Branch | branch | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1558-pg540-part55/e3/