Exam question 3 · Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician…
By what means did the King determine that the Queen was in fact of royal birth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Queen · What happens: mean, do, be · To what, where: King determine, fact · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1583 «Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician's last trick, then Sigurd's birth and Regin's tale of the gold» 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 means | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 determine | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 determine | compound |
| 7 | determine | determine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 fact | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Queen | det |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fact | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fact | cop |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 fact | case |
| 13 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | advcl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 birth | case |
| 15 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 birth | amod |
| 16 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fact | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the King determine | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent determine=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Queen | fact | of royal birth | 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 · ✓ the right answer
the cold gold ring on her finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | compound |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 finger | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 finger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a bright gold ring and a wise old riddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | compound |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 riddle | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 riddle | det |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 riddle | amod |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 riddle | amod |
| 9 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the ring upon her hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ring | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a silver brooch she wore
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 brooch | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brooch | amod |
| 3 | brooch | brooch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wore | nsubj |
| 5 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brooch | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | she | a silver brooch not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent brooch=Theme |
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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