Exam question 1 · Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest,…

Upon what part of the castle was the young priest confined prior to his release?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young priest · What happens: be

This is exam question 1 of lesson 892 «Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest, and at sunrise Helga turns back into a girl» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 part	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 part	det
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 confined	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 castle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 confined	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 priest	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 priest	amod
10	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 confined	nsubj
11	confined	confine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	15 release	case
13	to	to	ADP	_	12 prior	fixed
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 release	nmod:poss
15	release	release	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 confined	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 confined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young priest					upon what part of the castle; prior his release; confine property	tree rules

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 horse stables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stables	nsubj
3	stables	stable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stable	present	the horse						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The great upper hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hall	amod
3	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hall	amod
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The deep stone cellars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cellars	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cellars	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cellars	compound
4	cellars	cellar	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The hanging gallery

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gallery	det
2	hanging	hanging	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gallery	compound
3	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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