Exam question 2 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, part 1: a serpent w…
Which of the following accurately describes the reason the elder brothers abandoned their younger sibling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elder brothers · What happens: follow, describe, abandon · To what, where: younger sibling
This is exam question 2 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 reason | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 reason | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 reason | csubj |
| 5 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 6 describes | advmod |
| 6 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 following | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 brothers | det |
| 10 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brothers | amod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 abandoned | nsubj |
| 12 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reason | acl:relcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sibling | nmod:poss |
| 14 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 sibling | amod |
| 15 | sibling | sibling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 abandoned | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 reason | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | describe | present | accurately property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | abandon | past | the elder brothers | brothers's younger sibling | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme sibling=Source |
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
Envy of his fortune
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fortune | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Envy | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | envy | his fortune | nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
Fear of his power
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 power | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 power | nmod:poss |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fear | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | his power | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
Jealousy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Jealousy of his success
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 success | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 success | nmod:poss |
| 4 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jealousy | 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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