Exam question 1 · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…
In which location did the two travellers elect to pass the night?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two travellers · What happens: do, elect, pass · To what, where: location
This is exam question 1 of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 location | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 location | det |
| 3 | location | location | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 travellers | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 travellers | nummod |
| 7 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 elect | nsubj |
| 8 | elect | elect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pass | mark |
| 10 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 elect | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pass | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which location | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | elect | present | the two travellers | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | the two travellers not said here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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
In a barn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 barn | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 barn | det |
| 3 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
At an inn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 inn | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 inn | det |
| 3 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
At an inn situated at the edge of a forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 inn | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 inn | det |
| 3 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 inn | acl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 edge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 edge | det |
| 7 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 situated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 edge | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | participle | a inn not said here | the edge of a forest | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at edge=Destination |
Option 4
At a farm situated beside a quiet river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 farm | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 farm | det |
| 3 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 farm | acl |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 8 river | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 river | det |
| 7 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 river | amod |
| 8 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 situated | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | participle | a farm not said here | a quiet river | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside river=Destination |
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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