Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the c…
What reward did the smith receive for his service, according to the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: smith · What happens: be, receive, accord, service
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1623 «Grimm's Tales, Christian the Smith: the smith guards the church and frees the princess» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 receive | obl |
| 2 | reward | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 receive | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smith | det |
| 5 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | nsubj |
| 6 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 service | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 service | nmod:poss |
| 9 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 receive | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 narrative | punct |
| 11 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 narrative | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 according | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 narrative | det |
| 14 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 service | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 receive | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | receive | past · do-support | the smith | for smith's service and the narrative | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | service | smith | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Half the kingdom and the princess in marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 kingdom | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kingdom | det |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 princess | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kingdom | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 marriage | case |
| 8 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 princess | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Money and a farm for life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 farm | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 farm | det |
| 4 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Money | conj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 life | case |
| 6 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Money | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The whole kingdom and a crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kingdom | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kingdom | amod |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 crown | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crown | det |
| 6 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kingdom | 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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