Exam question 2 · Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wi…

Which object did the princess remove from her father's chest in order to assist her suitor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, assist · To what, where: princess remove, chest, suitor

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1784 «Gutenberg 641, The Enchanted Knife: a youth tames three wild horses and wins the princess with a magic knife.» 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 object	det
2	object	object	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	6 remove	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 remove	compound
6	remove	remove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 chest	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chest	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 father	case
11	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 order	case
13	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 assist	mark
15	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	advcl
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 suitor	nmod:poss
17	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 assist	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object	the princess remove		object's father's chest		in order	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remove=Eventuality
2	assist	to-infinitive	which object not said here	object's suitor					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suitor=Beneficiary

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 key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A jewelled dagger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dagger	det
2	jewelled	jewell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dagger	amod
3	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jewell	participle							tree rules

Option 3

A silver ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The enchanted knife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knife	det
2	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knife	amod
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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