Exam question 1 · Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the…

Which object did the old toad give the maid to assist her in crossing the glass mountain?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, old toad · What happens: do, give, assist, cross · To what, where: maid, glass mountain

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1686 «Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the wedding» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toad	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 toad	amod
6	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maid	det
9	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 assist	mark
11	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 give	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 assist	obj
13	in	in	SCONJ	_	14 crossing	mark
14	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 assist	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mountain	det
16	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mountain	compound
17	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crossing	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	which object			tree rules
2	give	present	the old toad	the maid		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme
3	assist	to-infinitive	the old toad not said here		maid	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
4	cross	gerund	the old toad not said here	the glass mountain		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient

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

three long silver needles from the old toad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 needles	nummod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 needles	amod
3	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needles	compound
4	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 toad	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 toad	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 toad	amod
8	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needles	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

three large needles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 needles	nummod
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 needles	amod
3	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

three sharp swords

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 swords	nummod
2	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swords	amod
3	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

two iron hooks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hooks	nummod
2	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hooks	compound
3	hooks	hook	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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