Exam question 4 · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…
Which two objects did the lovers cast behind them to produce the forest and the lake?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two objects, lovers · What happens: do, cast, produce · To what, where: forest
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | obj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 objects | nummod |
| 3 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lovers | det |
| 6 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cast | nsubj |
| 7 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cast | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 produce | mark |
| 11 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cast | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 produce | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lake | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lake | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forest | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | two objects | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cast | present | the lovers | behind objects = object | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent behind they=Destination | ||||
| 3 | produce | to-infinitive | the lovers not said here | the forest and the lake | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Result |
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 bread and the knife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bread | det |
| 2 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 knife | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knife | det |
| 5 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bread | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the flower-pot and the comb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pot | det |
| 2 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pot | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 flower | punct |
| 4 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 comb | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 comb | det |
| 7 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pot | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the golden comb and the brush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 comb | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comb | amod |
| 3 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brush | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brush | det |
| 6 | brush | brush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comb | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the flower-pot and the glass of water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pot | det |
| 2 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pot | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 flower | punct |
| 4 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 glass | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pot | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glass | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1654-pg5615-part43/e4/