Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…

On what occasion was Cinderlad instructed by the Foal to sever the heads of the seven foals?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Foal · What happens: instruct, sever · To what, where: Cinderlad, heads

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 occasion	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 occasion	det
3	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instructed	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 instructed	aux:pass
5	Cinderlad	Cinderlad	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 instructed	nsubj:pass
6	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Foal	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Foal	det
9	Foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instructed	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sever	mark
11	sever	sever	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 instructed	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 heads	det
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sever	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 foals	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 foals	det
16	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 foals	nummod
17	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heads	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 instructed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · passive	the Foal	Cinderlad				on what occasion	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient on occasion=Topic
2	sever	to-infinitive	the Foal not said here	the heads of the seven foals					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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

After the long feast ended

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	4 feast	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feast	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 feast	amod
4	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ended	nsubj
5	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	end	past	the long feast						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

At dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

On the day of his wedding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wedding	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wedding	nmod:poss
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wed		his = he						nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

At noon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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