Exam question 1 · Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a b…
Which gift did the knight first request from the monarch as recompense for his assistance?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gift · What happens: do, assist · To what, where: knight first request, monarch
This is exam question 1 of lesson 682 «Violet Fairy Book, The Gifts of the Magician, part 22: a boy saves a magician from wolves and wins his horse» 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 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | 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 | 7 request | det |
| 5 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 request | compound |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 request | amod |
| 7 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 monarch | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monarch | det |
| 10 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 recompense | case |
| 12 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 monarch | nmod |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 assistance | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 15 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which gift | the knight first request | the monarch as recompense | for gift's assistance | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | assist | gift | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice
The royal nose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nose | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nose | amod |
| 3 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The monarch's crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monarch | det |
| 2 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crown | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 monarch | case |
| 4 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | the monarch | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The monarch's ear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monarch | det |
| 2 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ear | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 monarch | case |
| 4 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The king's gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gold | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | 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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