Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife send…
Which option correctly identifies the purpose of the wife's advice concerning the servants of the castle?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: option, advice · What happens: identify, concern, purpose · To what, where: purpose, servants
This is exam question 2 of lesson 244 «English Fairy Tales, Gobborn Seer: Jack's clever wife sends him back to tell a tale, and the king's son is trapped in a chest» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 option | det |
| 2 | option | option | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identifies | nsubj |
| 3 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 4 identifies | advmod |
| 4 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 purpose | det |
| 6 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identifies | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 advice | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 advice | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 wife | case |
| 11 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 purpose | nmod |
| 12 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 advice | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 servants | det |
| 14 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 concerning | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 servants | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | present | which option | the purpose of the wife's advice | correctly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme | |||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the wife's advice not said here | the servants of the castle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus servant=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | purpose | the wife's advice | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=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
It was intended to reduce the number of workers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 intended | aux:pass |
| 3 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 reduce | mark |
| 5 | reduce | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 intended | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 number | det |
| 7 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reduce | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 workers | case |
| 9 | workers | worker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 number | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reduce not said to happen | to-infinitive | the number of workers | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer number=Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It was intended to conceal the king's intentions
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 intended | aux:pass |
| 3 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 conceal | mark |
| 5 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 intended | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 intentions | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 conceal | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | conceal not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king's intentions | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient | |||||
| 3 | intend | the king | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
It was intended to delay the completion of the work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 intended | aux:pass |
| 3 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 delay | mark |
| 5 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 intended | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 completion | det |
| 7 | completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 delay | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 work | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 work | det |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 completion | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | delay not said to happen | to-infinitive | the completion of the work | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent completion=Source | |||||
| 3 | complete | the work | nom completion «act transitive»: of=patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
It was intended to foster friendly relations
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 intended | aux:pass |
| 3 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 foster | mark |
| 5 | foster | foster | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 intended | xcomp |
| 6 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 relations | amod |
| 7 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 foster | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intend | past · passive | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | foster not said to happen | to-infinitive | friendly relations | tree rules |
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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