Exam question 4 · Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic w…
Which substance did the Bee bring in order to revive Lemmenkaeinen?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance · What happens: bring in, revive · To what, where: order, Lemmenkaeinen
This is exam question 4 of lesson 461 «Folk-Tales, The Waters of Life and Death, part 53: magic water brings the dead back, and Snakes and cliffs guard the flasks» 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 substance | det |
| 2 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bee | det |
| 5 | Bee | Bee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 bring | compound:prt |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 revive | mark |
| 10 | revive | revive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bring | advcl |
| 11 | Lemmenkaeinen | Lemmenkaeinen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 revive | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in | past · do-support | which substance | order | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme order=Asset | ||||
| 2 | revive | to-infinitive | which substance not said here | Lemmenkaeinen | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lemmenkaeinen=Patient |
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
life-giving nectar from the Creator's hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giving | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 life | punct |
| 3 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giving | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Creator | det |
| 7 | Creator | Creator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hall | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Creator | case |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | nectar | the Creator's hall | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nectar=Theme |
Option 2
sweet mead
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mead | amod |
| 2 | mead | mead | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
honey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
vivifying honey from the Creator's cellar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vivifying | vivify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 vivifying | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 cellar | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Creator | det |
| 5 | Creator | Creator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cellar | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Creator | case |
| 7 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 vivifying | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vivify | gerund | honey | the Creator's cellar | 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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