Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Son of the King of Tethertown, par…
Which magical object did the giant ask the prince to fetch from the top of the fir tree?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: ask, fetch · To what, where: prince, top
This is exam question 4 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | obj |
| 2 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 object | amod |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 giant | det |
| 6 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fetch | mark |
| 11 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ask | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fetch | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 17 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tree | compound |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fetch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the top of the fir tree | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from top=Source |
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
a bird's nest from the top
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nest | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 bird | case |
| 4 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nest | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
five magpie eggs from the nest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eggs | nummod |
| 2 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eggs | compound |
| 3 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 nest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nest | det |
| 6 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eggs | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the golden apple from the orchard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 apple | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 apple | amod |
| 3 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 orchard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 orchard | det |
| 6 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 apple | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
five magpie eggs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 eggs | nummod |
| 2 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eggs | compound |
| 3 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
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