Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…
Which object does the emperor strike the heads with at the moment the swineherd receives the sixty-eighth kiss?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, swineherd · What happens: do, strike, receive · To what, where: emperor, heads, eighth kiss
This is exam question 3 of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» 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 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 emperor | det |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heads | det |
| 8 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strike | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 moment | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moment | det |
| 12 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strike | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 swineherd | det |
| 14 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 receives | nsubj |
| 15 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 moment | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kiss | det |
| 17 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 eighth | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sixty | punct |
| 19 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kiss | amod |
| 20 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 receives | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | which object | the emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | present | which object not said here | the heads | moment | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | receive | present | the swineherd | the eighth kiss | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=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
a heavy wooden cane from the court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cane | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cane | amod |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cane | amod |
| 4 | cane | cane | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 court | det |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cane | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the golden staff of his royal office
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 staff | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 staff | amod |
| 3 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 office | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 office | nmod:poss |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 office | amod |
| 7 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 staff | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
his sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sword | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
his shoe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 shoe | nmod:poss |
| 2 | shoe | shoe | 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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