Exam question 2 · Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway,…
What did the damsel offer the eldest daughter in exchange for a night in the chamber?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: damsel · What happens: offer · To what, where: eldest daughter, exchange
This is exam question 2 of lesson 238 «Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales, The Black Bull of Norroway, the youngest sister rides off on the Black Bull and wins back her knight» 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 | 5 offer | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 offer | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 damsel | det |
| 4 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offer | nsubj |
| 5 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 daughter | amod |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offer | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 exchange | case |
| 10 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offer | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 exchange | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 chamber | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chamber | det |
| 16 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 offer | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 offer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past · do-support | the damsel | the eldest daughter | exchange for a night | in the chamber | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal daughter=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
Jewellery from her apple, pear and plum, and her silver comb too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jewellery | jewellery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 apple | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 apple | nmod:poss |
| 4 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jewellery | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pear | punct |
| 6 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jewellery | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plum | cc |
| 8 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pear | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 comb | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 comb | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 comb | nmod:poss |
| 12 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 comb | amod |
| 13 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jewellery | conj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 comb | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Rings and gold from her apple
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gold | cc |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rings | conj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 apple | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 apple | nmod:poss |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rings | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Jewellery from her apple, pear and plum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jewellery | jewellery | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 apple | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 apple | nmod:poss |
| 4 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jewellery | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pear | punct |
| 6 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jewellery | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 plum | cc |
| 8 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jewellery | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Jewels from her apple and plum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 apple | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 apple | nmod:poss |
| 4 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jewels | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 plum | cc |
| 6 | plum | plum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 apple | conj |
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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