Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous…
State the object by which the second wife revives the stepdaughter.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: second wife · What happens: revive · To what, where: stepdaughter
This is exam question 2 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 object | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 revives | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 wife | amod |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 revives | nsubj |
| 9 | revives | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 object | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stepdaughter | det |
| 11 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 revives | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 object | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revive | present | the second wife | the stepdaughter | by the State object | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stepdaughter=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 silver needle, used
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 needle | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 needle | compound |
| 3 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 used | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 needle | punct |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle · passive | a silver needle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
the cup of wine, drunk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cup | det |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wine | case |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cup | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 drunk | punct |
| 6 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cup | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the comb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 comb | det |
| 2 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the poisoned stab, removed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stab | det |
| 2 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stab | amod |
| 3 | stab | stab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 removed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stab | punct |
| 5 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | remove | participle · passive | the poisoned stab | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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