Exam question 3 · Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: Ilsab…
In what order are the attendants of the emperor arranged around the throne?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, arrange · To what, where: attendants, order, emperor, throne
This is exam question 3 of lesson 734 «Grimm's Household Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife: Ilsabill wants to be king, emperor, pope, then lord of the sun and moon» 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 order | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 order | det |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attendants | obl |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 attendants | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 attendants | det |
| 6 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 emperor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attendants | nmod |
| 10 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 emperor | acl |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 throne | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 throne | det |
| 13 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arranged | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 attendants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the attendants | what order | of the emperor | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arrange | participle | the emperor not said here | the throne | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around throne=Destination |
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 · ✓ the right answer
from tallest to smallest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 2 tallest | case |
| 2 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 smallest | case |
| 4 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 tallest | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
from smallest to tallest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 2 smallest | case |
| 2 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 tallest | case |
| 4 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 smallest | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
from the tallest giant down to the tiniest dwarf in the row
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 giant | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 3 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 giant | amod |
| 4 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dwarf | obl |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 dwarf | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 dwarf | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dwarf | det |
| 8 | tiniest | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 dwarf | amod |
| 9 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 row | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 row | det |
| 12 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dwarf | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
from tallest to smallest, with the giants at the front
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 2 tallest | case |
| 2 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 smallest | case |
| 4 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 tallest | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 giants | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 giants | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giants | det |
| 8 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tallest | parataxis |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 front | det |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giants | 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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