Exam question 1 · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…
Which reward was offered to Ring upon the successful recovery of the treasures?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: treasures · What happens: offer, ring, recover · To what, where: reward, successful recovery
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1732 «Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in the cave» 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 reward | det |
| 2 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 offered | aux:pass |
| 4 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 Ring | mark |
| 6 | Ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 offered | xcomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 recovery | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 recovery | det |
| 9 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 recovery | amod |
| 10 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Ring | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 treasures | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 treasures | det |
| 13 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 recovery | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 offered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past · passive | which reward | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ring not said to happen | to-infinitive | the successful recovery of the treasures | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon recovery=Location | |||||
| 3 | recover | the treasures | nom recovery «event intransitive»: of=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 · ✓ the right answer
the hand of the King's daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hand | det |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 daughter | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 King | case |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a seat on the royal council and the King's daughter's hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 seat | det |
| 2 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 council | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 council | det |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 council | amod |
| 6 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seat | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hand | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 King | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seat | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the hand of the Queen's sister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hand | det |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sister | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Queen | case |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hand | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
half of the kingdom and the royal treasury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 kingdom | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kingdom | det |
| 4 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 half | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 treasury | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 treasury | det |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 treasury | amod |
| 8 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 half | conj |
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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