Exam question 4 · Grimm's Tales, The Raven, part 1: a faithful servant saves…
Of what nature was the punishment assigned by the King to the Queen and her accomplice?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: nature · What happens: be, assign · To what, where: punishment, Queen
This is exam question 4 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 punishment | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 punishment | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 punishment | det |
| 6 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 punishment | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 assigned | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Queen | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Queen | det |
| 13 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 assigned | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 accomplice | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 accomplice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | accomplice | accomplice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Queen | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | nature | the punishment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assign | participle | the punishment not said here | the Queen and her accomplice | by the King | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to queen=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
a public execution in the square
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 execution | det |
| 2 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 execution | amod |
| 3 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 square | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 square | det |
| 6 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 execution | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a holed ship sent out to sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 2 | holed | hole | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ship | amod |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ship | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sent | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hole | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | send out | participle | a holed ship not said here | sea | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to sea=Destination |
Option 3
exile to a distant island
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exile | exile | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 island | det |
| 4 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 island | amod |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 exile | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exile | imperative | you not said here | a distant island | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to island=Destination |
Option 4
a dungeon in the castle tower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dungeon | det |
| 2 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tower | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tower | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tower | compound |
| 6 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dungeon | 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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