Exam question 2 · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

Which creature was deprived of its wings by the other bees?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: other bees · What happens: deprive · To what, where: creature

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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 creature	det
2	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deprived	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 deprived	aux:pass
4	deprived	deprive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wings	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wings	nmod:poss
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deprived	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 bees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bees	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bees	amod
11	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deprived	obl:agent
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 deprived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deprive	past · passive	the other bees	which creature				of creature's wings	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Source of wing=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 right answer

The queen-bee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bee	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bee	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 queen	punct
4	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The worker bee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

The drone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A worker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 worker	det
2	worker	worker	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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