Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Diamonds and Toads, part 3: the fairy at…
Which object did the eldest daughter carry to the fountain upon her departure?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, daughter · What happens: carry, depart · To what, where: fountain
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1078 «Perrault's Tales, Diamonds and Toads, part 3: the fairy at the fountain» 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 | 7 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carry | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | nsubj |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 fountain | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fountain | det |
| 10 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 departure | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 departure | nmod:poss |
| 13 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 carry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · do-support | which object | the fountain | upon daughter's departure | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to fountain=Destination | |||
| 2 | depart | daughter | nom departure «act intransitive»: 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
The best silver tankard in the house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tankard | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 tankard | amod |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tankard | compound |
| 4 | tankard | tankard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tankard | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A bucket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bucket | det |
| 2 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The family's silver tankard from the shelf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tankard | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 family | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tankard | compound |
| 5 | tankard | tankard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 shelf | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shelf | det |
| 8 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tankard | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A pewter cup from the kitchen dresser
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cup | det |
| 2 | pewter | pewter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cup | compound |
| 3 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 dresser | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dresser | det |
| 6 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dresser | compound |
| 7 | dresser | dresser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cup | 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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