Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…
What did the giant require in exchange for the castle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: do, require · To what, where: exchange
This is exam question 1 of lesson 2018 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, part 37: the giant sets the prince three hard tasks» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 require | nsubj |
| 5 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 exchange | case |
| 7 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 require | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 exchange | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | require | present | the giant | exchange for the castle | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
the first son o the king's bairn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 8 bairn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bairn | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | bairn | bairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the castle's gold and silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 castle | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gold | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 castle | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 silver | cc |
| 6 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gold | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the king's first gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gold | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 gold | amod |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the first son born to the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 son | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | the first son not said here | to the king | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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