Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs…

Which object did the hairy man bestow upon the prince in order to summon foot soldiers?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: bestow, summon · To what, where: foot soldiers

This is exam question 3 of lesson 664 «Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs catch a hairy thief, and a prince gets three magic apples» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bestow	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bestow	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bestow	nsubj
7	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bestow	obl
11	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 summon	mark
12	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 in	fixed
13	to	to	PART	_	14 summon	mark
14	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bestow	advcl
15	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 soldiers	compound
16	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 summon	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 bestow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bestow	past · do-support	which object					upon the prince	tree rules
2	summon	to-infinitive	which object not said here	foot soldiers					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient

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 right answer

A copper apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 apple	det
2	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apple	compound
3	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A silver horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

A golden staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A small iron key

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 key	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 key	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 key	compound
4	key	key	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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