Exam question 2 · Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is mar…
Identify the item that the old giant placed into the cellar for the youth's benefit.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, place · To what, where: item, old giant, cellar
This is exam question 2 of lesson 783 «Grimm, King Grisly-beard, part 59: a proud princess is married off to a beggar fiddler» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 item | det |
| 3 | item | item | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 giant | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 giant | amod |
| 7 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 item | appos |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 giant | acl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 cellar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cellar | det |
| 11 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 benefit | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 youth | det |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 benefit | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 youth | case |
| 16 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the item | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent item=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | the old giant not said here | the cellar | for the youth's benefit | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent |
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
Three chests filled with gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 chests | nummod |
| 2 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 chests | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | Three chests not said here | with gold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gold=Instrument |
Option 2
Three chests filled with gold and jewels for the poor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 chests | nummod |
| 2 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 jewels | cc |
| 7 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gold | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 poor | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 poor | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 filled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle · passive | Three chests | with gold and jewels; for the poor | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with gold=Instrument |
Option 3
Three chests
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 chests | nummod |
| 2 | chests | chest | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Some old gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 gold | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gold | amod |
| 3 | gold | gold | 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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