Exam question 2 · Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose f…
In what geographical location did the wizard Weatherbold reside prior to the transformation of his daughter?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: geographical location, wizard Weatherbold · What happens: do, reside, transform · To what, where: daughter
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1792 «Hauff's Fairy Tales, Dwarf Long Nose, part 43: the goose finds the magic herb for the pasty» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | obj |
| 3 | geographical | geographical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 location | amod |
| 4 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Weatherbold | det |
| 7 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Weatherbold | amod |
| 8 | Weatherbold | Weatherbold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reside | nsubj |
| 9 | reside | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | ccomp |
| 10 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 13 transformation | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 prior | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 transformation | det |
| 13 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reside | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 daughter | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 transformation | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | geographical location | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reside | present | the wizard Weatherbold | prior the transformation of Weatherbold's daughter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | transform | Weatherbold's daughter | nom transformation «event 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
the island of Gothland in the far north sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Gothland | case |
| 4 | Gothland | Gothland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 island | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 7 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 8 | north | north | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 island | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the island of Gothland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 island | det |
| 2 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Gothland | case |
| 4 | Gothland | Gothland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 island | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the isle of Glothaven
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 isle | det |
| 2 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Glothaven | case |
| 4 | Glothaven | Glothaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 isle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a castle on Gothmere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 castle | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Gothmere | case |
| 4 | Gothmere | Gothmere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 castle | 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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