Exam question 2 · Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win the…
Identify the creature which, under the direction of the willow-wren, administered repeated stings to the fox in the course of the engagement.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, administer, repeat · To what, where: creature, direction, repeated stings, fox, course
This is exam question 2 of lesson 735 «Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win their war, and a frog bargains with a princess» 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 creature | det |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 creature | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 direction | punct |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 direction | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 direction | det |
| 8 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wren | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wren | det |
| 11 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wren | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 willow | punct |
| 13 | wren | wren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 direction | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 administered | punct |
| 15 | administered | administer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Identify | parataxis |
| 16 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 stings | amod |
| 17 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 administered | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 fox | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fox | det |
| 20 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 administered | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 course | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 course | det |
| 23 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 administered | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 engagement | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 engagement | det |
| 26 | engagement | engagement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 course | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | 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 creature | the direction of the willow wren | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | |||
| 2 | administer | past | repeated stings | the fox | the course of the engagement | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sting=Theme to fox=Recipient | |||
| 3 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 gadfly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gadfly | det |
| 2 | gadfly | gadfly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A wasp
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wasp | det |
| 2 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The hornet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hornet | det |
| 2 | hornet | hornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A bee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bee | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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