Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three son…

Which son first undertook the watch over the magic fruit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: son · What happens: undertake · To what, where: watch, magic fruit

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1713 «Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants, part 37: three sons guard the magic fruit» 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 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undertook	nsubj
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 undertook	advmod
4	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watch	det
6	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undertook	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 fruit	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fruit	det
9	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fruit	amod
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 undertook	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 undertook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake	past	which son	the watch		the magic fruit		first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Eventuality

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

Miklos

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Miklos	Miklos	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the eldest son of the King, Szabo, who went first to the trees

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 King	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Szabo	punct
8	Szabo	Szabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 went	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 trees	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 trees	det
15	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the eldest son of the King and Szabo			the trees		first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the eldest son, Szabo, who went first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 son	amod
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Szabo	punct
5	Szabo	Szabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 son	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the eldest son					first property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Szabo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Szabo	Szabo	PROPN	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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