Exam question 3 · Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part…
What was the precise sum the lad offered the king in loan?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lad · What happens: be, offer · To what, where: precise sum, king, loan
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1655 «Popular Tales from the Norse, The Lad and the Troll, part 44: the lad serves the troll as hare, raven and fish, and meets the troll's daughter» 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 | 5 sum | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sum | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sum | det |
| 4 | precise | precise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sum | amod |
| 5 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lad | det |
| 7 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | nsubj |
| 8 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sum | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 loan | case |
| 12 | loan | loan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offered | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sum | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the precise sum | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | offer | past | the lad | the king | loan | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent king=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
Six bushels of money, borrowed against his own future and freedom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 bushels | nummod |
| 2 | bushels | bushel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 money | case |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bushels | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 borrowed | punct |
| 6 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bushels | acl |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 future | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 future | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 future | amod |
| 10 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 borrowed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 freedom | cc |
| 12 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 future | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow | participle | Six bushels of money not said here | against his own future and freedom | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Six full bushels of gold and silver coins stacked in the king's great hall
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 bushels | nummod |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bushels | amod |
| 3 | bushels | bushel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bushels | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 coins | cc |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coins | compound |
| 8 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gold | conj |
| 9 | stacked | stack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 coins | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hall | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 king | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hall | amod |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stacked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stack | participle | silver coins not said here | the king's great hall | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in hall=Destination |
Option 3
Five bushels of silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 bushels | nummod |
| 2 | bushels | bushel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 silver | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bushels | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Six bushels of money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 bushels | nummod |
| 2 | bushels | bushel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 money | case |
| 4 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bushels | 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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