Exam question 1 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…

Which object did the youth take from the castle in one hand, according to the narrative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, youth · What happens: do, take, accord · To what, where: castle, narrative

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1898 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent with a woman's head asks for help» 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	5 youth	det
5	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	nsubj
6	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 castle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 castle	det
9	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hand	nummod
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 according	punct
14	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 take	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 narrative	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 narrative	det
17	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 according	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	which object			tree rules
2	take	present	the youth	the castle	in one hand	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from castle=Initial_Location
3	accord	gerund	the youth not said here		to the narrative goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to narrative=Goal

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

The silver key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 key	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 key	amod
3	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The golden cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cage	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cage	amod
3	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gold	gold	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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