Exam question 4 · Old French Fairy Tales, Donkey-skin, part 18: the ring is…
Which garment did the Princess don upon receiving the summons?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: garment · What happens: do, receive · To what, where: Princess don, summons
This is exam question 4 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 garment | det |
| 2 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 don | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 don | compound |
| 6 | don | don | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 8 receiving | mark |
| 8 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 summons | det |
| 10 | summons | summon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 receiving | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which garment | the Princess don | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent don=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | receive | gerund | which garment not said here | the summons | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=Theme |
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 golden gown with lace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gown | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gown | amod |
| 3 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 lace | case |
| 5 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gown | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a plain grey dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dress | det |
| 2 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dress | amod |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dress | amod |
| 4 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a green silk gown and matching veil
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gown | det |
| 2 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gown | amod |
| 3 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gown | compound |
| 4 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 veil | cc |
| 6 | matching | matching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 veil | compound |
| 7 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gown | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a silver corsage and petticoat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 corsage | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 corsage | amod |
| 3 | corsage | corsage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 petticoat | cc |
| 5 | petticoat | petticoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 corsage | conj |
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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