Exam question 3 · Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps…
What did the knight direct the pasha to do upon his release?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: knight · What happens: direct, do · To what, where: pasha
This is exam question 3 of lesson 865 «Gutenberg 27200, The Jewish Maiden: a Jewish servant keeps her vow, hears a knight's legend and is buried outside the churchyard wall» 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 | 5 direct | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 direct | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 knight | det |
| 4 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 direct | nsubj |
| 5 | direct | direct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pasha | det |
| 7 | pasha | pasha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 direct | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pasha | acl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 release | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 release | nmod:poss |
| 12 | release | release | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 direct | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | direct | past · do-support | the knight | the pasha | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the knight not said here | the pasha not said here | upon knight's release | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
Return in peace to his loved ones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 peace | case |
| 3 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Return | nmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ones | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ones | nmod:poss |
| 6 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Return | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Leave the country quietly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leave | obj |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 1 Leave | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | the country | quietly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Return to his wife and children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 wife | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Return | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 children | cc |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wife | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Go in peace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 peace | case |
| 3 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | peace | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
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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