Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…

What object did the princess affix to the lad's hair as a token of identification?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: princess affix

This is exam question 2 of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» 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	3 did	obj
2	object	object	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	6 affix	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 affix	compound
6	affix	affix	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	11 hair	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lad	det
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hair	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 lad	case
11	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 token	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 token	det
14	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 identification	case
16	identification	identification	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 token	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	object	the princess affix				to the lad's hair; as a token of identification	tree rules

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

a ribbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ribbon	det
2	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a silver comb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 comb	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 comb	amod
3	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a golden brooch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 brooch	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brooch	amod
3	brooch	brooch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

a diamond ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ring	det
2	diamond	diamond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ring	amod
3	ring	ring	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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