Exam question 1 · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

Which individual was responsible for placing the Prince within the barrel and casting it into the sea?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: individual · What happens: be, place, cast · To what, where: Prince, individual, sea

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1731 «Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, the Giant's service, the wild oxen» 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 individual	det
2	individual	individual	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 responsible	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 responsible	cop
4	responsible	responsible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 placing	mark
6	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 responsible	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 placing	obj
9	within	within	ADP	_	11 barrel	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 barrel	det
11	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placing	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 casting	cc
13	casting	cast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 placing	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 casting	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 casting	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 responsible	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	which individual			responsible property	tree rules
2	place	gerund	which individual not said here	the Prince		within the barrel	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
3	cast	gerund	which individual not said here	individual	the sea		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into sea=Product

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

the Giant's son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Giant	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the king's guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guard	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	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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