Exam question 1 · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidd…
With what object did the Prince make his observation of the Princess, as recorded in the text?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: make, record, observe · To what, where: observation, text, Princess
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1092 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her donkey skin, works at a farm and the Prince spies on her» 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 make | obj |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 observation | nmod:poss |
| 9 | observation | observation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Princess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 observation | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 recorded | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 recorded | mark |
| 15 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 make | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 text | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 text | det |
| 18 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recorded | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · do-support | the Prince | Prince's observation of the Princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary observation=Product | ||||
| 2 | record | participle | the Prince not said here | the text | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in text=Destination | ||||
| 3 | observe | Prince | the Princess | nom observation «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
a keyhole in a door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 keyhole | det |
| 2 | keyhole | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 door | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keyhole | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a gap under a gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gap | det |
| 2 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 gate | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gate | det |
| 5 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gap | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a small round hole in the great iron door of the chamber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hole | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hole | amod |
| 3 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hole | amod |
| 4 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 door | amod |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | compound |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hole | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 chamber | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chamber | det |
| 12 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
through the cracks of a heavy wooden shutter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | through | through | ADP | _ | 3 cracks | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cracks | det |
| 3 | cracks | crack | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 shutter | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shutter | det |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shutter | amod |
| 7 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shutter | amod |
| 8 | shutter | shutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cracks | 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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