Exam question 1 · Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes th…
Which destination did the squire direct Hans to reach, as stated in the text?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: destination · What happens: do, reach, state · To what, where: squire, text
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1633 «Danish Fairy Tales, Hans, the Mermaid's son: Hans makes the lake's fish flood the squire's yard and returns with gold from Purgatory» 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 destination | det |
| 2 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 squire | det |
| 5 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | direct | direct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hans | amod |
| 7 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 squire | appos |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 reach | mark |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 squire | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stated | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 stated | mark |
| 12 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 did | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 text | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 text | det |
| 15 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stated | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which destination | the squire | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squire=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reach | to-infinitive | which destination not said here | the squire not said here | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | state speech: other | participle | which destination not said here | the text | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
Purgatory
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Purgatory | purgatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Furreby town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Furreby | Furreby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 town | compound |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Lake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Hell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hell | hell | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1633-pg5615-part22/e1/