Exam question 4 · Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58…
Which creatures were sent, according to Dapplegrim, to hinder the youth's journey through the forest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth · What happens: send, accord, hinder, journey · To what, where: creatures, journey, forest
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1561 «Norse Tales, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon, part 58: Dapplegrim climbs the cliff and rescues the Princess, then the King sets new tasks» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 creatures | det |
| 2 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dapplegrim | punct |
| 6 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Dapplegrim | case |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 according | fixed |
| 8 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hinder | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 hinder | mark |
| 11 | hinder | hinder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youth | det |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 journey | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 youth | case |
| 15 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hinder | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hinder | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | which creatures | accord Dapplegrim | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hinder | to-infinitive | the youth's journey | the forest | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | journey | the youth | nom journey «act transitive»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
the wolves and the trolls of the hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolves | det |
| 2 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 trolls | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trolls | det |
| 5 | trolls | troll | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wolves | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trolls | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the crows and the wild boars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crows | det |
| 2 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 boars | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boars | det |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boars | amod |
| 6 | boars | boar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crows | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the wild birds and the wild beasts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 birds | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 birds | amod |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 beasts | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beasts | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beasts | amod |
| 7 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 birds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the wild beasts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beasts | det |
| 2 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beasts | amod |
| 3 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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/1561-pg540-part58/e4/