Exam question 4 · Norse Tales, Ring and Snati, part 56: trolls outwitted in…

Which article did the old troll request from his wife before proceeding to the river?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: article · What happens: do, proceed · To what, where: old troll request

This is exam question 4 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 article	det
2	article	article	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	7 request	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 request	amod
6	troll	troll	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 request	compound
7	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 proceeding	mark
12	proceeding	proceed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 proceeding	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which article	the old troll request				from article's wife	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality
2	proceed	gerund	which article not said here					to the river	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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 cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the bright gold piece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 piece	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 piece	amod
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	compound
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cup	det
2	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the gold chess-board

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 board	det
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 board	compound
3	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 board	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 chess	punct
5	board	board	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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