Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…
Which object did the young priest construct and hold aloft during the journey through the forest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, hold · To what, where: young priest construct, forest
This is exam question 1 of lesson 893 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 104: robbers kill the priest and horse, and Helga, now a frog, buries him» 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 | 7 construct | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 construct | amod |
| 6 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 construct | compound |
| 7 | construct | construct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hold | cc |
| 9 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 10 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hold | xcomp |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 journey | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | obl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hold | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the young priest construct | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent construct=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hold | present | which object not said here | the forest | during the journey | aloft property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Location |
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
a stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stick | det |
| 2 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a wooden cross of sticks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cross | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cross | amod |
| 3 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sticks | case |
| 5 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cross | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a crown made of leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 crown | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 crown | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 leaves | case |
| 5 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a crown not said here | of leaves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a cross formed of branches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cross | det |
| 2 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cross | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 branches | case |
| 5 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 formed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | participle | a cross not said here | of branches | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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