Exam question 2 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…
In what manner did the King react upon beholding the youth's arrival at the palace?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King, youth · What happens: do, react, behold, arrive · To what, where: manner, arrival, palace
This is exam question 2 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 react | nsubj |
| 7 | react | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 9 beholding | mark |
| 9 | beholding | behold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 react | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 youth | case |
| 13 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beholding | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 palace | det |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beholding | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what manner | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | react | present | the King | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | behold | gerund | the King not said here | the youth's arrival | the palace | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer arrival=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | arrive | the youth | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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 right answer
He was delighted beyond measure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | cop |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 5 measure | case |
| 5 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 delighted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | beyond measure; delighted property | tree rules |
Option 2
He was overjoyed with glee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 overjoyed | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overjoyed | aux:pass |
| 3 | overjoyed | overjoy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 glee | case |
| 5 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overjoyed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overjoy | past · passive | He | with glee | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
He was filled with great joy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | aux:pass |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 joy | amod |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | He | with great joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument |
Option 4
Very glad
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 glad | advmod |
| 2 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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