Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant
To whom did the prince assign the task of retrieving the sword?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince, task · What happens: assign, retrieve · To what, where: task, sword
This is exam question 2 of lesson 685 «Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant» 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 whom | case |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 assign | obl |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assign | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assign | nsubj |
| 6 | assign | assign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 task | det |
| 8 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assign | obj |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 retrieving | mark |
| 10 | retrieving | retrieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 task | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sword | det |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 retrieving | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 assign | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assign | past · do-support | the prince | the task | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent task=Theme to whom=Goal | ||||
| 2 | retrieve | gerund | the task not said here | the sword | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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
To the fox, the squirrel, the ape and the old hound from the village
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 fox | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 squirrel | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 squirrel | det |
| 6 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fox | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ape | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ape | det |
| 9 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fox | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hound | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hound | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hound | amod |
| 13 | hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ape | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 village | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 village | det |
| 16 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hound | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
To all the animals of the forest, including the fox, squirrel and ape
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 animals | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 animals | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 animals | det |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 animals | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fox | punct |
| 9 | including | including | ADP | _ | 11 fox | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forest | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 squirrel | punct |
| 13 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forest | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ape | cc |
| 15 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forest | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
To the fox, the bear and the crow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 fox | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bear | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fox | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 crow | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crow | det |
| 9 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fox | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To the fox, the squirrel and the ape
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 fox | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 squirrel | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 squirrel | det |
| 6 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fox | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ape | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ape | det |
| 9 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fox | 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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