Exam question 3 · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part…
Which of the following statements correctly identifies the persons destined to be thrown into the tub?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: persons · What happens: follow, identify, destine, throw · To what, where: tub
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1082 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 7: the Ogress-Queen orders her grandchildren and daughter-in-law to be eaten, the clerk saves them, and she orders a tub of snakes for them all» 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 | 7 identifies | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 statements | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statements | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 statements | amod |
| 5 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 identifies | obl |
| 6 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 7 identifies | advmod |
| 7 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 persons | det |
| 9 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 destined | nsubj |
| 10 | destined | destine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 identifies | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 thrown | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thrown | aux:pass |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 destined | xcomp |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 tub | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tub | det |
| 16 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | identify | present | of the following statements; correctly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | destine | past | the persons | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | throw | to-infinitive · passive | the persons not said here | into the tub result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into tub=Result |
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 Queen, her children, the clerk, his wife, his maid, and the Queen-mother's guards.
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Queen | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clerk | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clerk | det |
| 8 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Queen | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wife | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Queen | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 maid | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 maid | nmod:poss |
| 14 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 guards | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 guards | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mother | det |
| 18 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mother | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Queen | punct |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 guards | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 mother | case |
| 22 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Queen | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Queen, her children, the clerk, his wife and maid.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 clerk | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 children | punct |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 children | nmod:poss |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Queen | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clerk | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clerk | det |
| 8 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wife | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clerk | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 maid | cc |
| 13 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wife | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 clerk | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Queen, the clerk, and his wife.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clerk | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clerk | det |
| 5 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Queen | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Queen | appos |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Queen-mother, the King, and the clerk's family.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Queen | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 family | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 family | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 clerk | det |
| 11 | clerk | clerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 family | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 clerk | case |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mother | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mother | punct |
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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