Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the se…
Which of the following correctly states the sum that the King required before the second daughter could be restored?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum · What happens: follow, state, require, restore · To what, where: King, sum
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1574 «Blue Fairy Book, Minnikin, part 71: Minnikin fights the second and third Trolls, and the Princess wins her rescuer» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 restored | obj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 restored | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 restored | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 states | nsubj |
| 5 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 6 states | advmod |
| 6 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 restored | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sum | det |
| 8 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 required | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 required | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sum | acl |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 daughter | amod |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 required | obl |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 restored | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 restored | aux:pass |
| 19 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 restored | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present | correctly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | require | participle · passive | the sum not said here | the King | before the second daughter | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition | |||
| 4 | restore | could · passive | the sum | tree rules |
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 rope and some men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rope | det |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 men | cc |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rope | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
An iron rope of three hundred ells and men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rope | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rope | compound |
| 3 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ells | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ells | nummod |
| 7 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rope | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 men | cc |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ells | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A silver chain of five hundred ells and men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chain | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chain | amod |
| 3 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ells | case |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ells | nummod |
| 7 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chain | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 men | cc |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ells | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
An iron rope of five hundred ells and five hundred men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rope | det |
| 2 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rope | compound |
| 3 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ells | case |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 hundred | compound |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ells | nummod |
| 7 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rope | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 men | cc |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 men | nummod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ells | conj |
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.
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