Exam question 4 · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

Which gift did Anna promise should she be chosen by a suitor?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gift, suitor · What happens: promise, choose · To what, where: Anna · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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 gift	det
2	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 promise	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 promise	aux
4	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 promise	nsubj
5	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 chosen	aux
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chosen	nsubj
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 chosen	aux:pass
9	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 promise	ccomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 suitor	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 suitor	det
12	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chosen	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 promise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	which gift						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	choose	should · passive	a suitor	Anna					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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

A silver cup of fine wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cup	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cup	amod
3	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wine	case
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wine	amod
6	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cup	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A loaf that preserves youth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 loaf	det
2	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 preserves	nsubj
4	preserves	preserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 loaf	acl:relcl
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 preserves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	preserve	present	a loaf	youth					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Beneficiary

Option 3

A cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Golden bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bread	amod
2	bread	bread	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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