Exam question 4 · Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Hel…
Which of the following identifies the principal faith mentioned in this part, to which the young priest adhered?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young priest · What happens: follow, identify, mention, adhere · To what, where: principal faith, part
This is exam question 4 of lesson 891 «Andersen's Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 102: Helga grows wild, and the Vikings bring home a Christian priest.» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 identifies | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 identifies | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 identifies | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 identifies | nsubj |
| 5 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 faith | det |
| 7 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 faith | amod |
| 8 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 identifies | obj |
| 9 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 faith | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 part | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 part | det |
| 12 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mentioned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 adhered | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 adhered | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 priest | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 priest | amod |
| 18 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 adhered | nsubj |
| 19 | adhered | adhere | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 faith | conj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | identify | present | the principal faith | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent faith=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | participle | the principal faith not said here | this part | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | adhere | participle | the young priest | to the principal faith | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to which=Co-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
Shamanism
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shamanism | Shamanism | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Christianity
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christianity | Christianity | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Paganism
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paganism | Paganism | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Odinism
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Odinism | Odinism | PROPN | 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/891-pg27200-part102/e4/