Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the…
Which object did the wicked brother use to commit the murder?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, use, commit · To what, where: wicked brother, murder
This is exam question 1 of lesson 821 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elf of the Rose, part 32: the lover is murdered and the sister keeps his head» 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 | 6 brother | det |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brother | amod |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 commit | mark |
| 9 | commit | commit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 use | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 murder | det |
| 11 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 commit | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the wicked brother | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | use | infinitive | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | commit | to-infinitive | the murder | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murder=Theme |
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
a sharp knife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 knife | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knife | amod |
| 3 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a pistol loaded with silver from the town
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pistol | det |
| 2 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 pistol | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 silver | case |
| 5 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loaded | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loaded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | participle | a pistol not said here | the town | with silver | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with silver=Theme |
Option 3
a rusty nail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 nail | det |
| 2 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nail | amod |
| 3 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a rusty axe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 axe | det |
| 2 | rusty | rusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 axe | amod |
| 3 | axe | axe | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/821-pg27200-part32/e1/