Exam question 3 · Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, p…
Which of the troll's three riddles was resolved by the troll's daughter's gesture at the moment of selection?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gesture, troll, daughter · What happens: resolve, riddle, gesture
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1656 «Norse Tales, The Troll's Heart: the youth frees himself, pays the king's debt, and wins the troll's heart» 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 | 9 resolved | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 riddles | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 troll | det |
| 4 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riddles | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 troll | case |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 riddles | nummod |
| 7 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 resolved | obl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 resolved | aux:pass |
| 9 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 gesture | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 troll | det |
| 12 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 troll | case |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gesture | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 16 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 resolved | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 moment | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 moment | det |
| 19 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 resolved | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 selection | case |
| 21 | selection | selection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moment | nmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 resolved | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past · passive | the troll's daughter's gesture | moment | of the troll's three riddles | tree rules | |||
| 2 | riddle | the troll | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 3 | gesture | the troll's daughter | nom gesture «act intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
The third riddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 riddle | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 riddle | amod |
| 3 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The second riddle, concerning the location of the troll's heart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 riddle | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 riddle | amod |
| 3 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 concerning | punct |
| 5 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 riddle | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 location | det |
| 7 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concerning | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 troll | det |
| 10 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 troll | case |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 location | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concern | gerund | the second riddle not said here | the location of the troll's heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus location=Experiencer |
Option 3
The third riddle, concerning the meaning of the troll's flint
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 riddle | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 riddle | amod |
| 3 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 concerning | punct |
| 5 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 riddle | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meaning | det |
| 7 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 concerning | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 flint | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 troll | det |
| 10 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flint | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 troll | case |
| 12 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meaning | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concern | gerund | the third riddle not said here | the meaning of the troll's flint | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus meaning=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | mean | the troll's flint | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
The first riddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 riddle | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 riddle | amod |
| 3 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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