Exam question 1 · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

Which object did the king finally place upon the scale in order to balance the silk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, balance · To what, where: king, order, silk

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 place	advmod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 scale	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 scale	det
10	scale	scale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 order	case
12	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 balance	mark
14	balance	balance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 silk	det
16	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 balance	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the king		order			tree rules
2	balance	to-infinitive	which object not said here	the silk					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location silk=Theme

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

His golden crown

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 crown	nmod:poss
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crown	amod
3	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crown		His = he						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

His silver sceptre

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 sceptre	nmod:poss
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sceptre	amod
3	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The royal seal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seal	det
2	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seal	amod
3	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

His ring

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 ring	nmod:poss
2	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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