Exam question 3 · English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel rev…
To what did the daughter compare her affection for her father?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: daughter · What happens: compare · To what, where: affection
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1950 «English Fairy Tales, Cap o' Rushes: the master's gruel reveals the girl in rushes, and her father learns how much she loved him» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 compare | obl |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 compare | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compare | nsubj |
| 6 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 affection | nmod:poss |
| 8 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compare | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 compare | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 compare | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | past · do-support | the daughter | daughter's affection | for daughter's father | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Patient |
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 loaf's love of honey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 loaf | det |
| 2 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 loaf | case |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 honey | case |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | a loaf | honey | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the way the sea loves the moon and tide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loves | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loves | nsubj |
| 5 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loves | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tide | cc |
| 9 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 moon | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | the sea | the way | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus |
Option 3
a hen's love of corn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 hen | case |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 corn | case |
| 6 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | a hen | corn | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
fresh meat's love of salt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 meat | amod |
| 2 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 meat | case |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 salt | case |
| 6 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 love | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | fresh meat | salt | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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