Exam question 3 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins t…

Upon what instrument did the princess perform in order to induce the sea-maiden to emerge?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: instrument, princess · What happens: do, perform, induce, emerge · To what, where: order

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2008 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Herd Boy, part 27: the herd wins the princess by untying the heads, then is taken to the loch» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	obj
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perform	nsubj
7	perform	perform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 order	case
9	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 perform	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 induce	mark
11	induce	induce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 perform	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maiden	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 maiden	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sea	punct
15	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 induce	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 emerge	mark
17	emerge	emerge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 maiden	xcomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past	instrument		tree rules
2	perform	present	the princess	order	vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	induce	to-infinitive	the princess not said here		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	emerge	to-infinitive	the princess not said here		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

a fiddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fiddle	det
2	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a harp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 harp	det
2	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a flute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flute	det
2	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a small wooden drum and whistle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drum	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drum	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drum	amod
4	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 whistle	cc
6	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drum	conj

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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