Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…
Which sequence correctly describes the princess's transformation during the bath?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: sequence, describe, transform · To what, where: transformation
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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 | 2 sequence | nsubj |
| 2 | sequence | sequence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 4 describes | advmod |
| 4 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sequence | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 transformation | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 princess | case |
| 8 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 describes | obj |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 11 bath | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bath | det |
| 11 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 describes | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 sequence | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sequence | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | describe | present | the princess's transformation | during the bath | correctly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent transformation=Theme | |||
| 3 | transform | the princess | nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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 right answer
Black swan, then white swan with a black ring, then princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 swan | amod |
| 2 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 swan | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 white | advmod |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 swan | amod |
| 6 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swan | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 ring | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ring | amod |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 swan | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 princess | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 princess | advmod |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swan | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Black swan, then princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 swan | amod |
| 2 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 princess | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 princess | advmod |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swan | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Princess, then black swan, then white one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 swan | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 swan | advmod |
| 4 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 swan | amod |
| 5 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Princess | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 white | advmod |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Princess | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Black swan, then grey swan, then princess at last
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 swan | amod |
| 2 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 swan | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 swan | advmod |
| 5 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 swan | amod |
| 6 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swan | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 princess | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 princess | advmod |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swan | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 princess | nmod |
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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