Exam question 2 · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidd…
By what name was the Princess known among the inhabitants of the farm?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, know · To what, where: Princess
This is exam question 2 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 name | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 name | nsubj |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Princess | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Princess | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Princess | acl |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 inhabitants | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 inhabitants | det |
| 10 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 known | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 farm | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 farm | det |
| 13 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inhabitants | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Princess | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Princess | by name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | the Princess not said here | among the inhabitants of the farm | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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
Goose-girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 girl | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Goose | punct |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Donkey-skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 skin | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Donkey | punct |
| 3 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The girl who wears the donkey's skin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 wears | nsubj |
| 4 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 girl | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 donkey | det |
| 6 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skin | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 donkey | case |
| 8 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wears | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | the girl | the donkey's skin | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent skin=Source |
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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