Exam question 2 · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 38: the A…
What instruction did the voice of the oaken statue give to Jason?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: instruction, voice · What happens: do, give · To what, where: voice, Jason
This is exam question 2 of lesson 2079 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 38: the Argo gets a talking figure-head and the heroes gather» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 instruction | det |
| 2 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 statue | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 statue | det |
| 8 | oaken | oaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 statue | amod |
| 9 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | nmod |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 voice | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Jason | case |
| 12 | Jason | Jason | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what instruction | the voice of the oaken statue | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | the voice of the oaken statue not said here | Jason | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to jason=Recipient |
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 right answer
Summon the heroes of Greece
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Summon | summon | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heroes | det |
| 3 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Summon | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Greece | case |
| 5 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heroes | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | imperative | you not said here | the heroes of Greece | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hero=Recipient |
Option 2
Gather the Greek champions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 champions | det |
| 3 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 champions | amod |
| 4 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Gather | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | imperative | you not said here | the Greek champions | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent champion=Theme |
Option 3
Sail to Colchis now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 Colchis | case |
| 3 | Colchis | Colchis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sail | nmod |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Sail | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Find the Golden Fleece
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fleece | det |
| 3 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fleece | amod |
| 4 | Fleece | Fleece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Find | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | imperative | you not said here | the Golden Fleece | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Topic |
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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