Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive i…
Which intervention altered the curse placed upon the princess at her christening?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: intervention · What happens: alter, place, christen · To what, where: curse
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1080 «Perrault's Tales, Blue Beard: the wife's brothers arrive in time, Blue Beard dies, and she inherits his wealth» 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 intervention | det |
| 2 | intervention | intervention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 altered | nsubj |
| 3 | altered | alter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 curse | det |
| 5 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 altered | obj |
| 6 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 curse | acl |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 placed | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 christening | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 christening | nmod:poss |
| 12 | christening | christening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 princess | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 altered | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alter | past | which intervention | the curse | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent curse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | place | participle | the curse not said here | upon the princess at intervention's christening | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon princess=Destination | ||||
| 3 | christen | intervention | nom christening «act 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
a fairy's kiss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 fairy | case |
| 4 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | a fairy | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
a kind prince's secret kiss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kiss | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 prince | case |
| 5 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kiss | amod |
| 6 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | a kind prince | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the young Fairy's hidden speech
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fairy | amod |
| 3 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 speech | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Fairy | case |
| 5 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speech | amod |
| 6 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak | the young Fairy | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
the old Fairy's secret spell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fairy | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Fairy | amod |
| 3 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spell | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Fairy | case |
| 5 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spell | amod |
| 6 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spell | the old Fairy | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=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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