Exam question 2 · Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bulle…
Identify the instrument with which the prince, having been advised by Trembling, successfully struck the whale.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Trembling · What happens: identify, advise, strike · To what, where: instrument, whale
This is exam question 2 of lesson 2013 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Trembling: the whale, the silver bullet and the cowboy's message» 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 instrument | det |
| 3 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 prince | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 prince | nsubj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 instrument | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 advised | punct |
| 9 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 advised | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 advised | aux:pass |
| 11 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Identify | parataxis |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Trembling | case |
| 13 | Trembling | Trembling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 advised | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 struck | punct |
| 15 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 16 struck | advmod |
| 16 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 advised | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 whale | det |
| 18 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 struck | obj |
| 19 | . | . | 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 instrument | with the prince | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme | |||
| 2 | advise speech: other | gerund · perfect · passive | Trembling | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | strike | past | Trembling not said here | the whale | successfully property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent whale=Instrument |
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 · ✓ the right answer
A silver bullet fired from a gun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bullet | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bullet | amod |
| 3 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bullet | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 gun | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gun | det |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fired | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | participle | a silver bullet not said here | a gun | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from gun=Initial_Location |
Option 2
A copper arrow shot from a bow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 shot | det |
| 2 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrow | compound |
| 3 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | compound |
| 4 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bow | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bow | det |
| 7 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A silver bullet blessed by a priest and fired from a long gun at dawn
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bullet | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bullet | amod |
| 3 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | blessed | bless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bullet | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 priest | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 priest | det |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blessed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fired | cc |
| 9 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 blessed | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 gun | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 gun | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gun | amod |
| 13 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fired | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 dawn | case |
| 15 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blessed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | participle | a silver bullet not said here | dawn | by a priest | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fire | participle | a long gun | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from gun=Initial_Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A silver bullet fired from a gun that the prince had borrowed from the king
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bullet | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bullet | amod |
| 3 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | fired | fire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bullet | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 gun | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 gun | det |
| 7 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fired | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 borrowed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 borrowed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 borrowed | aux |
| 12 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gun | acl:relcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 borrowed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fire | participle | a silver bullet not said here | a gun | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from gun=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | borrow | past · perfect · passive | a gun | from the king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from king=Source |
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