Exam question 1 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…

Which servant did the master's wife state was "worth all the rest put together"?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife state · What happens: servant, do, be, put together · To what, where: rest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 1 of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» 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	2 servant	nsubj
2	servant	servant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 servant	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 master	det
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 state	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 master	case
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 state	compound
8	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worth	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worth	cop
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 worth	punct
11	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	parataxis
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 rest	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rest	det
14	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worth	parataxis
15	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 rest	acl
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 put	advmod
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 worth	punct
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 servant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	servant	present				tree rules
2	do	past				tree rules
3	is in a quote	past	the master's wife state		worth property	tree rules
4	put together in a quote	participle		all rest not said here	together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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 butler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 butler	det
2	butler	butler	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the laundry-maid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maid	det
2	laundry	laundry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 maid	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 laundry	punct
4	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the master's wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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