Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of…
Which stone did the ogre request from the princess in the course of his visit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone · What happens: do, visit · To what, where: ogre request, course
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1157 «Fairy Book, The Stone in the Turban, part 23: a palace of ice is raised, and the ogre tricks the princess» 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 stone | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | 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 request | det |
| 5 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 request | compound |
| 6 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 course | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 course | det |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 visit | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 visit | nmod:poss |
| 15 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 course | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which stone | the ogre request | the course of stone's visit | from the princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | visit | stone | nom visit «act transitive»: 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 jewel from the chest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jewel | det |
| 2 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 chest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chest | det |
| 5 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jewel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the stone with weird marks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stone | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 marks | case |
| 4 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 marks | amod |
| 5 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stone | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the stone with weird marks carved deep inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stone | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 marks | case |
| 4 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 marks | amod |
| 5 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stone | nmod |
| 6 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 marks | acl |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 8 inside | advmod |
| 8 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 6 carved | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carve | participle | weird marks not said here | inside property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
the largest stone with weird marks and a golden rim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stone | det |
| 2 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 stone | amod |
| 3 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 marks | case |
| 5 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 marks | amod |
| 6 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stone | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rim | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rim | det |
| 9 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rim | amod |
| 10 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marks | 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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