Exam question 2 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a…

Which object did Cinderlad produce before the King as evidence of the foals' diet?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, evidence · To what, where: Cinderlad produce, diet

This is exam question 2 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Cinderlad	cinderlad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 produce	amod
5	produce	produce	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 evidence	case
10	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 diet	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 foals	det
13	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 diet	nmod:poss
14	'	's	PART	_	13 foals	case
15	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 evidence	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	Cinderlad produce			before the King	as evidence of the foals's diet	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent produce=Eventuality
2	evidence			the foals's diet					nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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

The consecrated bread, the flask of wine, and the old rusty sword from the birch

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bread	det
2	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bread	amod
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flask	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flask	det
6	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wine	case
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flask	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sword	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sword	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sword	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sword	amod
13	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sword	amod
14	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 birch	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 birch	det
17	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sword	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consecrate	participle							vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The sacred wafer and a jug of sweet mead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wafer	det
2	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wafer	amod
3	wafer	wafer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 jug	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jug	det
6	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wafer	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 mead	case
8	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mead	amod
9	mead	mead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jug	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The consecrated bread and the flask of wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bread	det
2	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bread	amod
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 flask	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flask	det
6	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wine	case
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flask	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consecrate	participle							vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The consecrated bread, the flask of wine, and a small book of prayers from the church

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bread	det
2	consecrated	consecrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bread	amod
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flask	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flask	det
6	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wine	case
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flask	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 book	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 book	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 book	det
12	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 book	amod
13	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 prayers	case
15	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 book	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 church	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 church	det
18	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 prayers	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	consecrate	participle							vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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