Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin…
Which gift did the first crook-backed hag bestow upon Minnikin in exchange for her restored eye?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gift · What happens: back, bestow, restore · To what, where: exchange
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1573 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Minnikin, part 70: Minnikin tricks three one-eyed hags for magic gifts, then saves the Princess from the first Troll while Ritter Red takes the credit.» 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 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bestow | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bestow | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hag | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 hag | amod |
| 6 | crook | crook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 backed | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 crook | punct |
| 8 | backed | back | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hag | amod |
| 9 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bestow | nsubj |
| 10 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 Minnikin | case |
| 12 | Minnikin | Minnikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 bestow | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 exchange | case |
| 14 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bestow | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 eye | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eye | nmod:poss |
| 17 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 eye | amod |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 exchange | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 bestow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | bestow | past · do-support | which gift | exchange for hag's restored eye | upon Minnikin | tree rules | |||
| 3 | restore | participle | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
A ring granting invisibility to its wearer always
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | granting | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 ring | acl |
| 4 | invisibility | invisibility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granting | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wearer | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wearer | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wearer | wearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granting | obl |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 granting | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | gerund | a ring not said here | invisibility | to invisibility's wearer goal; always property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent invisibility=Theme to wearer=Goal |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A sword capable of defeating an entire army
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 capable | nsubj |
| 3 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 defeating | mark |
| 5 | defeating | defeat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 capable | advcl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 7 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 army | amod |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 defeating | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defeat | gerund | a entire army | tree rules |
Option 3
A wand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wand | det |
| 2 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | 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/1573-pg540-part70/e1/