Exam question 1 · Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learn…
Which name did the messenger report hearing the dwarf sing beside the fire?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: name, messenger report · What happens: do, hear · To what, where: messenger report, dwarf sing, fire
This is exam question 1 of lesson 750 «Household Tales, Gretel the Cook, part 26: the queen learns the dwarf's name, and Gretel eats the fowls» 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 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 report | det |
| 5 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 report | compound |
| 6 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 report | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sing | det |
| 9 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sing | amod |
| 10 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hearing | obj |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hearing | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which name | the messenger report | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent report=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the messenger report not said here | the dwarf sing | the fire | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sing=Stimulus |
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
Rumpelstiltskin Hobblefoot of the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rumpelstiltskin | Rumpelstiltskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Hobblefoot | Hobblefoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Rumpelstiltskin | flat |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 hills | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hills | det |
| 5 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rumpelstiltskin | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Rumpelstilton
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rumpelstilton | Rumpelstilton | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Rumpelstiltskin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rumpelstiltskin | Rumpelstiltskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Rumpelstiltskin, the little man of the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rumpelstiltskin | Rumpelstiltskin | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rumpelstiltskin | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | 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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