Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince…
What is the name given to the reward the heathen king offers the lute player?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heathen king · What happens: be, give, offer · To what, where: name, reward, lute player
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1762 «Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince, part 13: the queen wins back her king, then a lost king makes a bargain with a stranger» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 name | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 reward | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reward | det |
| 8 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 10 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | compound |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offers | nsubj |
| 12 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reward | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 player | det |
| 14 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 player | compound |
| 15 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offers | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | participle | the name not said here | the reward | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to reward=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | offer | present | the heathen king | the lute player | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent player=Theme |
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 golden promise of his deepest heart's desire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 promise | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 promise | amod |
| 3 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 desire | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 heart | amod |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 desire | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 9 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 promise | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise | his deepest heart's desire | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 2 | desire | his deepest heart | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
the highest prize of the whole royal court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prize | det |
| 2 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 prize | amod |
| 3 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 court | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 court | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 court | amod |
| 7 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 court | amod |
| 8 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prize | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
heart's desire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 desire | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 heart | case |
| 3 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | heart | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
heart's wish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wish | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 heart | case |
| 3 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | heart | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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