Exam question 4 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…
Which object did the youth bring forth from the subterranean tower?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, youth · What happens: do, bring · To what, where: subterranean tower
This is exam question 4 of lesson 767 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was: the youth calms the dogs, hears the frogs, and becomes Pope» 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 | 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 | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 tower | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tower | det |
| 10 | subterranean | subterranean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tower | compound |
| 11 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | present | the youth | the subterranean tower | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from tower=Initial_Location |
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 purse of coins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 purse | det |
| 2 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 coins | case |
| 4 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 purse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A chest containing gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chest | det |
| 2 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 chest | acl |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 containing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contain | gerund | a chest not said here | gold | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot gold=Theme |
Option 3
A large iron chest packed tightly with ancient gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 chest | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chest | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chest | compound |
| 4 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 chest | acl |
| 6 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 5 packed | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 gold | case |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gold | amod |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 packed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pack | participle | a large iron chest not said here | with ancient gold; tightly property | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |
Option 4
A trunk holding jewels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 trunk | det |
| 2 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 trunk | acl |
| 4 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 holding | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | a trunk not said here | jewels | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme |
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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