Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…
Which object did the prince employ to sever the thick tree-trunk?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, sever · To what, where: prince employ, thick tree trunk
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1820 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins her with ants, tigers, a flying bed and a hair» 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 employ | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | compound |
| 6 | employ | employ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sever | mark |
| 8 | sever | sever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 employ | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 trunk | det |
| 10 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trunk | amod |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trunk | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 tree | punct |
| 13 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sever | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the prince employ | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sever | to-infinitive | which object not said here | the thick tree trunk | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=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
a golden sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sword | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sword | amod |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a wooden spoon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 spoon | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spoon | amod |
| 3 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a sharp iron hatchet from the forge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hatchet | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hatchet | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hatchet | compound |
| 4 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 forge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forge | det |
| 7 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hatchet | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a wax hatchet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hatchet | det |
| 2 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hatchet | compound |
| 3 | hatchet | hatchet | 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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