Exam question 4 · Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, part 80: the Musician…

To whom did the dying King entrust the broken pieces of his sword?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dying King · What happens: die, entrust, break

This is exam question 4 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 whom	case
2	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 entrust	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
5	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 King	amod
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 entrust	nsubj
7	entrust	entrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whom	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pieces	det
9	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 pieces	amod
10	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whom	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sword	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sword	nmod:poss
13	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pieces	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 whom	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	die	gerund		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	entrust	past · do-support	the dying King	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	break	participle		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice

his son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 son	nmod:poss
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his young wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wife	amod
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

his trusted maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 maid	nmod:poss
2	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 maid	amod
3	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	participle							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wife	nmod:poss
2	wife	wife	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.

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