Exam question 3 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…
To which location did the witch's daughter proceed, carrying the lamp, in order to obtain water?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: location, you · What happens: do, proceed, carry, obtain · To what, where: daughter, lamp, water
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1658 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47: Esben steals the witch's lamp and is sent for a coverlet» 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 | To | to | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 location | det |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 proceed | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 witch | case |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | proceed | proceed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carrying | punct |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 proceed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lamp | det |
| 13 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 obtain | punct |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 obtain | mark |
| 16 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 in | fixed |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 obtain | mark |
| 18 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 proceed | conj |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obtain | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 proceed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which location | the witch's daughter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | proceed | imperative | you not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | you not said here | the lamp | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme | ||||
| 4 | obtain | to-infinitive | you not said here | water | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=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
the deep well at the far end of the yard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 well | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 well | amod |
| 3 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 6 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 end | amod |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 well | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 yard | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 yard | det |
| 10 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the stable
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stable | det |
| 2 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 well | det |
| 2 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | 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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