Exam question 3 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab…
Which precious substance was the first fountain required to play?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: first fountain, precious substance · What happens: substance, be, require, play · To what, where: first fountain
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1684 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Golden Crab, part 8: the Crab builds a wall and garden, then his secret is betrayed» 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 | 3 substance | nsubj |
| 2 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 substance | amod |
| 3 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fountain | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fountain | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fountain | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 fountain | amod |
| 7 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | required | require | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fountain | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 required | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fountain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | substance | the first fountain | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | precious substance | the first fountain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | require | participle | the first fountain not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | play | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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
Tin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Brass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Ash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | 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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