Exam question 1 · Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a…
Upon what condition did the king agree to the marriage of Jesper and the princess?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: agree, marry · To what, where: Jesper
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1786 «Danish Fairy Tales, Clever Jesper, part 37: Jesper herds a hundred hares and collects three strange payments» 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 agree | obl |
| 3 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 agree | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 agree | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 agree | nsubj |
| 7 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 marriage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 marriage | det |
| 10 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 agree | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Jesper | case |
| 12 | Jesper | Jesper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 marriage | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 princess | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 marriage | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 agree | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · do-support | condition | to the marriage of Jesper and the princess | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | marry | Jesper | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient |
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
Winning a task
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 task | det |
| 3 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Winning | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | gerund | a task | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
Option 2
A small task
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 task | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 task | amod |
| 3 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Payment of a hundred gold coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 coins | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 coins | nummod |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coins | compound |
| 6 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Payment | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | hundred gold coins | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Success in a further small task
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 task | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 task | det |
| 4 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 task | amod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 task | amod |
| 6 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Success | nmod |
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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