Exam question 4 · Norse Tales, Prince Ring, part 55: barrel to an island, th…

Which enumerated objects did Ring request from the Giant, and what was the outcome of his selection?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: objects, his · What happens: enumerate, do, be, select · To what, where: Ring request, outcome

This is exam question 4 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 enumerated	nsubj
2	enumerated	enumerate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 enumerated	ccomp
5	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 request	compound
6	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 Giant	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Giant	det
9	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 request	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 outcome	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 outcome	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 outcome	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 outcome	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 outcome	det
15	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 enumerated	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 selection	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 selection	nmod:poss
18	selection	selection	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 outcome	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 enumerated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enumerate	past				tree rules
2	do	past	objects	Ring request	from the Giant	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
3	is a	past		the outcome	of his selection	tree rules
4	select		his = he			nom selection «act transitive»: poss=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

a sack of coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 coins	case
4	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sack	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the Giant's old sword

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sword	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sword	amod
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Giant	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sword	amod
5	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the parlour contents

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 contents	det
2	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 contents	compound
3	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root

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

Option 4

the contents of the locked parlour room

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 contents	det
2	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 room	det
5	locked	lock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 room	amod
6	parlour	parlour	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 room	compound
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 contents	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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