Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…
What is the name of the horse that the youth acquires from his brothers?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: be, acquire · To what, where: name, horse
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1560 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the youth wins a huge dappled horse and rides to the King's palace» 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 | 4 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 acquires | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 acquires | nsubj |
| 11 | acquires | acquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 horse | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 brothers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 acquires | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the name | of the horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | acquire | present | the youth | the horse not said here | from youth's brothers | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from brother=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 · ← Mova's choice
Dapple
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dapple | dapple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Dapplegrim, the wondrous grey horse of the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 horse | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 4 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 5 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dapplegrim | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hills | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 horse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Blackfoot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blackfoot | blackfoot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Dapplegrim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | 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/1560-pg540-part57/e1/