Exam question 4 · Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighter…
What did Arnold Winkelried declare he was prepared to sacrifice so that Switzerland might gain its freedom?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Switzerland · What happens: prepare, sacrifice, gain · To what, where: Arnold, freedom
This is exam question 4 of lesson 348 «Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighters face the spears, and Winkelried gives his life» 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 | 8 prepared | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 prepared | aux |
| 3 | Arnold | Arnold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 declare | nsubj |
| 4 | Winkelried | Winkelried | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Arnold | flat |
| 5 | declare | declare | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 prepared | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 prepared | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 prepared | aux:pass |
| 8 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sacrifice | mark |
| 10 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 prepared | xcomp |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 gain | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gain | nsubj |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 gain | aux |
| 15 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sacrifice | ccomp |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 17 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gain | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 prepared | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past · passive · do-support | Arnold | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sacrifice not said to happen | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | gain | might | Switzerland | its freedom | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=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 · ✓ the right answer
his own life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 life | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 life | amod |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
his land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 land | nmod:poss |
| 2 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
his gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 gold | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his farm and home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 farm | nmod:poss |
| 2 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 home | cc |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 farm | 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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