Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princes…
What reward did the girl request from the giant for her labour?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do · To what, where: girl request
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1646 «Fairy Tales, The Enchanted Lion: the girl cuts the princess's hair and frees the prince» 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=Int | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | reward | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 request | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 request | compound |
| 6 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 giant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 labour | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 labour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | the girl request | from the giant; for giant's labour | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality |
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 · ✓ the right answer
The release of the lion from his enchantment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 release | det |
| 2 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lion | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lion | det |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 release | nmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 enchantment | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 enchantment | nmod:poss |
| 8 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lion | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant | lion | nom enchantment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
A gold coin and a horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 coin | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coin | compound |
| 3 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 horse | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coin | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coins | compound |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The return of the stolen oxen to her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 return | det |
| 2 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 oxen | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 oxen | det |
| 5 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 oxen | amod |
| 6 | oxen | oxen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 return | nmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 return | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | return | the stolen oxen | to her = she | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent to=obl |
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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