Exam question 1 · Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the…

Identify which character in the first tale finally secured the release of the condemned lass from her sentence.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, first tale, tale · What happens: identify, secure, condemn, sentence · To what, where: character, release, sentence

This is exam question 1 of lesson 237 «Scottish Fairy Tales, The Golden Ball, My Own Self and the start of The Black Bull of Norroway: the lad beats the bogles, the lass is saved, a fairy child burns her foot, and a girl sets out for her fortune» 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 character	det
3	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 secured	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tale	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 tale	amod
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secured	nsubj
8	finally	finally	ADV	_	9 secured	advmod
9	secured	secure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 release	det
11	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secured	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 lass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lass	det
14	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lass	amod
15	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 release	nmod
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 sentence	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 sentence	nmod:poss
18	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 secured	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	which character			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme
2	secure	past	the first tale	the release of the condemned lass	tale's sentence	finally property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent release=Theme from sentence=Source
3	condemn	participle					vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	sentence		tale				nom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 lass's mother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lass	det
2	lass	lass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lass	case
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the hangman, who finally gave up the rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hangman	det
2	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gave	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 gave	nsubj
5	finally	finally	ADV	_	6 gave	advmod
6	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 gave	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rope	det
9	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	the hangman	the rope				finally property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Source

Option 3

the lad's father, who rode in on his horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lad	det
2	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lad	case
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rode	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rode	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 rode	nsubj
7	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 rode	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 horse	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 horse	nmod:poss
11	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rode	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride in	past	the lad's father					on father's horse	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the sweetheart, who arrived bearing the golden ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sweetheart	det
2	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrived	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 arrived	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 arrived	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ball	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ball	amod
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the sweetheart						tree rules
2	bear	gerund	the sweetheart not said here	the golden ball					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient

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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