Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a…
Which object does the tiger-king present to his life-giver upon the latter's return?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, latter · What happens: do, return · To what, where: tiger king present
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 present | det |
| 5 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 tiger | punct |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 present | compound |
| 8 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 giver | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 giver | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giver | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 life | punct |
| 13 | giver | giver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obl |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 return | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 latter | det |
| 16 | latter | latter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 return | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 latter | case |
| 18 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | which object | the tiger king present | to object's life giver; upon the latter's return | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | return | the latter | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 heavy chest full of coins and royal jewels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chest | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chest | amod |
| 3 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chest | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 coins | case |
| 6 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 jewels | cc |
| 8 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 jewels | amod |
| 9 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 coins | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A silver 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 | silver | silver | 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 3
A huge crown set with stones from the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 set | det |
| 2 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | amod |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | compound |
| 4 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 stones | case |
| 6 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 set | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stones | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A large crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crown | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crown | amod |
| 3 | crown | crown | 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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