Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangi…
State the item the storyteller declined to keep when offered restitution by the beggarman.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: State item · What happens: decline, not keep, offer · To what, where: restitution
This is exam question 4 of lesson 2006 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lank Grey Beggarman: tricks, hangings and a returned wife» 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 item | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 item | det |
| 3 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declined | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storyteller | det |
| 5 | storyteller | storyteller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 declined | nsubj |
| 6 | declined | decline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 keep | mark |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 declined | xcomp |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 offered | mark |
| 10 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 keep | xcomp |
| 11 | restitution | restitution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 beggarman | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beggarman | det |
| 14 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 offered | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 declined | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decline | past | the State item | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not keep | to-infinitive | the State item not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | offer | participle | the State item not said here | restitution | by the beggarman | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent restitution=Theme |
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
His wife, his money and his carriage with the hounds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 money | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 money | nmod:poss |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carriage | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 carriage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hounds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hounds | det |
| 11 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carriage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
His cattle and his gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gold | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gold | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cattle | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
His wife and his money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 money | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 money | nmod:poss |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wife | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
His money
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 money | nmod:poss |
| 2 | money | money | 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/2006-pg7885-part25/e4/