Exam question 4 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Esben and the Witch, part 47…
What was the king's stated consequence should the brothers fail to procure the coverlet?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stated consequence, brothers · What happens: be, state, fail, not procure · To what, where: stated consequence, coverlet
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consequence | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 consequence | amod |
| 7 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 fail | aux |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brothers | det |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fail | nsubj |
| 11 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 consequence | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 procure | mark |
| 13 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fail | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 coverlet | det |
| 15 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 procure | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king's stated consequence | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | state speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fail | should | the brothers | the king's stated consequence not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not procure | to-infinitive | the brothers not said here | the coverlet | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coverlet=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
the loss of their land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 land | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 land | nmod:poss |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the loss of their lives and all their father's wealth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lives | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lives | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loss | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wealth | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 wealth | det:predet |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loss | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the loss of their gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gold | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 loss | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the loss of their lives
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 loss | det |
| 2 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lives | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lives | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 loss | 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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