Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud…
Which object did the prince's ship display upon its surface?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, prince · What happens: do, display · To what, where: ship display
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1020 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Wild Swans, part 231: a proud prince is beaten by a gnat; a wicked queen plots against Eliza» 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 | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 display | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 display | compound |
| 8 | display | display | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 surface | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 surface | nmod:poss |
| 11 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the prince's ship display | upon object's surface | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent display=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | display | the prince | nom display «communication 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Thousands of gun barrels resembling eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 barrels | case |
| 3 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 barrels | compound |
| 4 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 5 | resembling | resemble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 barrels | acl |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 resembling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resemble | gerund | gun barrels not said here | eyes | tree rules |
Option 2
Thousands of tiny eyes that were actually gun barrels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 barrels | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 barrels | cop |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 9 barrels | advmod |
| 8 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 barrels | compound |
| 9 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eyes | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tiny eyes | gun barrels | actually property | tree rules |
Option 3
Thousands of glowing lanterns along rails
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 lanterns | case |
| 3 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 lanterns | amod |
| 4 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Thousands | nmod |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 rails | case |
| 6 | rails | rail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lanterns | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Rows upon rows of gleaming bronze barrels arranged like eyes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 rows | case |
| 3 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rows | nmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 barrels | case |
| 5 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 barrels | amod |
| 6 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 barrels | compound |
| 7 | barrels | barrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rows | nmod |
| 8 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 barrels | acl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 eyes | case |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arranged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | arrange | participle | gleaming bronze barrels not said here | like eyes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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