Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song bri…
What was the nature of the gift presented by the bird to the father?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: nature · What happens: be, present · To what, where: gift, father
This is exam question 2 of lesson 765 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Juniper Tree: the bird's song brings justice» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nature | det |
| 4 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 gift | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gift | det |
| 7 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nature | nmod |
| 8 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 gift | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presented | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 father | det |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 presented | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the nature of the gift | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | present | participle | the gift not said here | the father | by the bird | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient |
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
a beautiful gold chain of the finest craft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chain | det |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chain | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chain | compound |
| 4 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 craft | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 craft | det |
| 7 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 craft | amod |
| 8 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chain | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a silver coin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 coin | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coin | compound |
| 3 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a gold chain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 chain | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chain | compound |
| 3 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a heavy golden chain of great value
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chain | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chain | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chain | amod |
| 4 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 value | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 value | amod |
| 7 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chain | 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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