Exam question 3 · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels…
Identify the sequence in which the three companions were left to prepare the midday meal before Paul's own turn.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, three companions · What happens: identify, leave, prepare · To what, where: sequence, three companions, midday meal
This is exam question 3 of lesson 711 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels is caught and wed, then Paul gathers three strong friends and finds a dragon's captive» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sequence | det |
| 3 | sequence | sequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 left | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 companions | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 companions | nummod |
| 8 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 left | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux:pass |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sequence | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prepare | mark |
| 12 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 left | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meal | det |
| 14 | midday | midday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meal | compound |
| 15 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prepare | obj |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 turn | case |
| 17 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 turn | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Paul | case |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 turn | amod |
| 20 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prepare | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the sequence | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent sequence=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | the three companions | the sequence | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prepare | to-infinitive | the three companions not said here | the midday meal | before Paul's own turn | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
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
Stone Crusher, Tree Comber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Crusher | Crusher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Stone | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Comber | punct |
| 4 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Comber | compound |
| 5 | Comber | Comber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Stone | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Iron Kneader, Tree Comber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Kneader | Kneader | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Iron | appos |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Comber | punct |
| 4 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Comber | compound |
| 5 | Comber | Comber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kneader | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Stone Crusher, Iron Kneader, Tree Comber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Crusher | Crusher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Stone | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kneader | punct |
| 4 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kneader | compound |
| 5 | Kneader | Kneader | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Stone | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Comber | punct |
| 7 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Comber | compound |
| 8 | Comber | Comber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Stone | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Tree Comber, Stone Crusher, Iron Kneader
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Comber | Comber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tree | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Stone | punct |
| 4 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tree | conj |
| 5 | Crusher | Crusher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tree | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kneader | punct |
| 7 | Iron | Iron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Kneader | compound |
| 8 | Kneader | Kneader | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tree | 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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