Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth…
To what penalty was the youth condemned by the king in the matter of the alleged usurpation?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: penalty, alleged usurpation · What happens: be, condemn, allege, matter · To what, where: youth, matter
This is exam question 3 of lesson 683 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Horse: music saves the youth from the gallows, and he is made king» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 youth | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 youth | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youth | det |
| 6 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 youth | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 condemned | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 matter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 condemned | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 usurpation | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 usurpation | det |
| 16 | alleged | allege | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 usurpation | amod |
| 17 | usurpation | usurpation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 matter | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | penalty | the youth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | condemn | participle | the youth not said here | the matter of the alleged usurpation | by the king | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | allege speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | matter | the alleged usurpation | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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
A fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fine | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Exile
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exile | Exile | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Banishment to the far hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Banishment | banishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 hills | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hills | det |
| 4 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hills | amod |
| 5 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Banishment | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Hanging without any trial
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 trial | case |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 trial | det |
| 4 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hanging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | gerund | without any trial | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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