Exam question 3 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Dapplegrim, part 2: the yout…
What penalty did the King specify should the youth fail to rescue the Princess?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: penalty, youth · What happens: do, fail, not rescue · To what, where: King specify, Princess
This is exam question 3 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 | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 specify | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 specify | compound |
| 6 | specify | specify | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fail | aux |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fail | nsubj |
| 10 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 specify | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rescue | mark |
| 12 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fail | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rescue | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | penalty | the King specify | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fail | should | the youth | the King specify not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not rescue | to-infinitive | the youth not said here | the Princess | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Execution
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Banishment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Banishment | banishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Execution by hanging in the public square
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 hanging | mark |
| 3 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Execution | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 square | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 square | det |
| 6 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 square | amod |
| 7 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hanging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | Execution not said here | the public square | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in square=Location |
Option 4
Execution by hanging in the public square before the whole kingdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 hanging | mark |
| 3 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Execution | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 square | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 square | det |
| 6 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 square | amod |
| 7 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hanging | obl |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 kingdom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kingdom | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 kingdom | amod |
| 11 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hanging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | Execution not said here | the public square | before the whole kingdom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in square=Location |
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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