Exam question 2 · Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother se…

Which object did the father bring home at the request of his younger daughter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: bring, request · To what, where: request, younger daughter

This is exam question 2 of lesson 759 «Household Tales, Ashputtel, part 35: a cruel stepmother sets impossible tasks, and a hazel-tree brings Ashputtel a golden dress for the king's feast» 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	6 bring	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bring	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	nsubj
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 bring	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 request	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 request	det
10	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bring	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 daughter	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
13	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 daughter	amod
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 request	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past · do-support	which object			the request of father's younger daughter		home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	request			father's younger daughter					nom request «communication transitive»: of=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

A lady's riding crop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lady	det
2	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crop	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lady	case
4	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crop	compound
5	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A hazel twig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 twig	det
2	hazel	hazel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twig	compound
3	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A basket of fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 basket	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 fruit	case
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 basket	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A silver goblet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 goblet	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goblet	amod
3	goblet	goblet	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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