Exam question 1 · Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest s…
Which object was the gardener's eldest son instructed to guard during the nocturnal hours?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: be, instruct, guard · To what, where: eldest son
This is exam question 1 of lesson 725 «Grimm Fairy Tales, The Golden Bird, part 1: the youngest son catches the bird, is caught, and must fetch a golden 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gardener | det |
| 5 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 gardener | case |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 son | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 guard | mark |
| 11 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 instructed | advcl |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 hours | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hours | det |
| 14 | nocturnal | nocturnal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hours | amod |
| 15 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 guard | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | which object | the gardener's eldest son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | participle | the gardener's eldest son not said here | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | guard | to-infinitive | hour | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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
The garden gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gate | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gate | compound |
| 3 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The golden-pear tree in the king's grove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pear | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 golden | punct |
| 4 | pear | pear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 grove | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grove | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tree | det |
| 2 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The golden-apple tree in the king's garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 apple | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 golden | punct |
| 4 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | compound |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 garden | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | nmod |
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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