Exam question 3 · Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar,…

What was the princess required to offer the serpent each morning according to the account?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, require, offer, accord · To what, where: princess, serpent

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1648 «Red Fairy Book, The Two Brothers, part 37: a bird, a boar, and a seven-headed serpent» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 princess	det
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 princess	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 offer	mark
7	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 required	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 serpent	det
9	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obj
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obl:unmarked
12	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 account	case
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 according	fixed
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 account	det
15	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offer	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the princess				tree rules
2	require	participle		the princess not said here			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
3	offer	to-infinitive		the serpent	morning	accord the account	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme
4	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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

A calf for lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 calf	det
2	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 lunch	case
4	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calf	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A girl each week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 week	det
4	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A man for breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 breakfast	case
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 man	nmod

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

Option 4

A goat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	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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