Exam question 3 · Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves…
Which of the following did the Prince decline to accept from the landlord's daughter?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, accept
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1928 «Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves his master, then a witch's poison kills a horse, a raven and twelve robbers» 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 decline | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 decline | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 decline | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 decline | case |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 decline | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 decline | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 decline | compound |
| 8 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 accept | mark |
| 10 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 decline | acl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 daughter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 landlord | det |
| 13 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 landlord | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accept | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 decline | 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 | accept | to-infinitive | from the landlord's daughter | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from daughter=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 · ✓ the right answer
the treasures of the robbers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 treasures | det |
| 2 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 robbers | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 robbers | det |
| 5 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 treasures | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treasure | the robbers | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2
the bread of the inn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bread | det |
| 2 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 inn | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 inn | det |
| 5 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bread | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the warning of the girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 warning | det |
| 2 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 girl | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 warning | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn | the girl | nom warning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4
the lodging for the night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lodging | det |
| 2 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lodging | 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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