Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…
What compensation has the monarch formally pledged to the individual who completes the vigil?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: compensation, monarch, individual · What happens: have, pledge, complete · To what, where: individual, vigil
This is exam question 2 of lesson 782 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 58: on the second night, half-men fall down the chimney and play nine-pins» 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 compensation | det |
| 2 | compensation | compensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 monarch | det |
| 5 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pledged | nsubj |
| 6 | formally | formally | ADV | _ | 7 pledged | advmod |
| 7 | pledged | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 individual | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 individual | det |
| 10 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pledged | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 completes | nsubj |
| 12 | completes | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 individual | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vigil | det |
| 14 | vigil | vigil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 completes | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | what compensation | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pledge | past | the monarch | the individual | formally property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to individual=Recipient | |||
| 3 | complete | present | the individual | the vigil | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vigil=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 right answer
his daughter in marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 marriage | case |
| 4 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 daughter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
half the royal treasury
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 treasury | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 treasury | det |
| 3 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 treasury | amod |
| 4 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
his youngest daughter in marriage and a dowry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 marriage | case |
| 5 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dowry | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 dowry | det |
| 8 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
half the kingdom and his daughter in marriage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 3 kingdom | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 kingdom | det |
| 3 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 daughter | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kingdom | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 marriage | case |
| 8 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | 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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