Exam question 2 · Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is…
What was the principal impediment to the Prince's recovery, according to the physicians?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, accord, recover · To what, where: principal impediment
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1093 «Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is tried on every finger» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 impediment | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 impediment | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 impediment | det |
| 4 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 impediment | amod |
| 5 | impediment | impediment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 recovery | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 recovery | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Prince | case |
| 10 | recovery | recovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 impediment | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 physicians | punct |
| 12 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 physicians | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 according | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 physicians | det |
| 15 | physicians | physician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 impediment | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 impediment | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the principal impediment and the physicians | to the Prince's recovery | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | recover | the Prince | nom recovery «event 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 sickness of greed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sickness | det |
| 2 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 greed | case |
| 4 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sickness | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a fever of the blood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fever | det |
| 2 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 blood | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blood | det |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fever | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a fever
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fever | det |
| 2 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the malady of love
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 malady | det |
| 2 | malady | malady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 love | case |
| 4 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 malady | 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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