Exam question 3 · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's…

What did the king command to be removed from the duck in order to restore Maiden Bright-eye's human form?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, remove, restore · To what, where: king command, eye human form

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1663 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Maiden Bright-eye: the duck's secret and the wicked sister's end» 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 command	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 command	compound
5	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 removed	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 removed	aux:pass
8	removed	remove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	advcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 duck	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 duck	det
11	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 removed	obl
12	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 restore	mark
13	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 in	fixed
14	to	to	PART	_	15 restore	mark
15	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 removed	advcl
16	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 eye	compound
17	Bright	Bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Maiden	flat
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Maiden	punct
19	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 form	compound
20	's	's	PART	_	19 eye	case
21	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 form	amod
22	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 restore	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	the king command		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Eventuality
2	remove	to-infinitive · passive		from the duck	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: from duck=Source
3	restore	to-infinitive	eye human form		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent form=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 entire upper half of the beak and the tongue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 half	det
2	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 half	amod
3	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 half	amod
4	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 beak	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beak	det
7	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 half	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tongue	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tongue	det
10	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 half	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

All of the golden feathers from its back and wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 feathers	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 feathers	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feathers	amod
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 All	nmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 All	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wings	cc
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 back	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

The tip of the tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tip	det
2	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tail	det
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tip	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The point of the beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 point	det
2	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 beak	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beak	det
5	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 point	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	point			the beak					nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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