Exam question 1 · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…

Upon what object did the Lilac-fairy's chariot consist, from which the fairy derived her appellation?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: be, do, derive · To what, where: chariot, appellation

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1094 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to the prince» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 derived	nsubj:outer
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairy	det
6	Lilac	Lilac	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fairy	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Lilac	punct
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chariot	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 fairy	case
10	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
11	consist	consist	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 what	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 derived	punct
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 derived	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fairy	det
16	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 derived	nsubj
17	derived	derive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 appellation	nmod:poss
19	appellation	appellation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 derived	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 derived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is	present			tree rules
2	do	past	object	the Lilac fairy's chariot	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Eventuality
3	derive	past		fairy's appellation	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent appellation=Result from which=Material

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

Branches, flowers and a canopy of silver moonlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flowers	punct
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Branches	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 canopy	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 canopy	det
6	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Branches	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 moonlight	case
8	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moonlight	compound
9	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 canopy	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Branches and flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 flowers	cc
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Branches	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Ivory and gold leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 leaf	cc
3	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaf	compound
4	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ivory	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Branches and flowers woven together by the fairies of the frozen north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 flowers	cc
3	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Branches	conj
4	woven	weave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Branches	acl
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 woven	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fairies	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fairies	det
8	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 woven	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 north	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 north	det
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 north	amod
12	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fairies	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	participle		Branches and flowers not said here				by the fairies of the frozen north; together property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by fairy=Trajectory
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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