Exam question 1 · Lang fairy book, The Golden Lion: the youngest brother hid…
Which object did the youngest son employ in order to convey himself into the king's private apartments?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, convey · To what, where: youngest son employ, object, private apartments
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1651 «Lang fairy book, The Golden Lion: the youngest brother hides in a golden lion, wins the princess by her white sash, and marries her» 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 | 7 employ | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 employ | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 employ | compound |
| 7 | employ | employ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 11 convey | mark |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 in | fixed |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 convey | mark |
| 11 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 employ | acl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 convey | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 apartments | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 apartments | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 apartments | amod |
| 18 | apartments | apartment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 convey | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the youngest son employ | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | convey | to-infinitive | which object not said here | object | the king's private apartments | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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 golden horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 horse | amod |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A bronze eagle with golden wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 2 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eagle | compound |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 wings | case |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wings | amod |
| 6 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eagle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A golden lion with crystal eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lion | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lion | amod |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eyes | amod |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lion | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A silver dragon with ruby eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragon | compound |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | compound |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dragon | nmod |
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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