Exam question 4 · English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sist…
Which condition does Kate impose before she consents to sit up on the third night?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, Kate · What happens: impose, consent, sit up
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1972 «English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts: Kate saves her sister and cures the sick prince» 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 condition | det |
| 2 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 impose | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 impose | aux |
| 4 | Kate | Kate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 impose | nsubj |
| 5 | impose | impose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 consents | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 consents | nsubj |
| 8 | consents | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 impose | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sit | mark |
| 10 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 consents | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 sit | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 night | amod |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sit | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 impose | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impose | present · do-support | which condition | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | consent | present | Kate | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit up | to-infinitive | Kate not said here | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Payment of a peck of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Payment | payment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 peck | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 peck | det |
| 4 | peck | peck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Payment | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 peck | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | a peck of gold | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Marriage to the sick prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Marriage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Marriage to the older prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Marriage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Gold for her hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Gold | 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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