Exam question 3 · Viking Tales, Helga, part 103: the frog frees the priest,…
To which settlement did the priest resolve to convey Helga, so that the enchantment might be lifted?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: priest · What happens: do, resolve, convey, lift · To what, where: priest, Helga, enchantment
This is exam question 3 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 settlement | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 settlement | det |
| 3 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 priest | det |
| 6 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | resolve | resolve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 priest | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 convey | mark |
| 9 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 resolve | xcomp |
| 10 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 convey | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lifted | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 lifted | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 lifted | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 enchantment | det |
| 15 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lifted | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lifted | aux:pass |
| 18 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 did | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the priest | to which settlement | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | resolve | infinitive | the priest not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | convey | to-infinitive | the priest not said here | Helga | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent helga=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lift | might · passive | the enchantment | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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 open heath
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heath | det |
| 2 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heath | amod |
| 3 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Hedeby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hedeby | Hedeby | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The blood-stone grove
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grove | det |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stone | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 blood | punct |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grove | compound |
| 5 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Viking's castle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Viking | det |
| 2 | Viking | Viking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 castle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Viking | case |
| 4 | castle | castle | 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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