Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous…
Identify the character who sends her stepdaughter to her death by means of a poisoned stab.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, character, her · What happens: identify, send, mean, poison, die · To what, where: character, stepdaughter, death
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 character | det |
| 3 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sends | nsubj |
| 5 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 character | acl:relcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stepdaughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sends | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 death | nmod:poss |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sends | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 means | case |
| 12 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sends | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 stab | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stab | det |
| 15 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 stab | amod |
| 16 | stab | stab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 means | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the character | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | present | the character | her stepdaughter | her death | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=Theme to death=Destination | |||
| 3 | mean | present | of a poisoned stab | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | die | her = she | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer
Silver-tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Silver | punct |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nell | Nell | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the trout
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trout | det |
| 2 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the maid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maid | det |
| 2 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1998-pg7885-part17/e1/