Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the…
What is the principal purpose of Becasigue's concealment at the cottage wall?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: principal purpose, concealment, Becasigue · What happens: be, purpose, conceal · To what, where: cottage wall
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1174 «Fairy Tales, The White Doe, part 40: the prince wounds the doe, Eglantine claims her, and Becasigue finds Desiree» 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 | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 purpose | det |
| 4 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 purpose | amod |
| 5 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 concealment | case |
| 7 | Becasigue | Becasigue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 concealment | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Becasigue | case |
| 9 | concealment | concealment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purpose | nmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 wall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wall | det |
| 12 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wall | compound |
| 13 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 concealment | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the principal purpose of Becasigue's concealment at the cottage wall | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | purpose | Becasigue's concealment at the cottage wall | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | conceal | Becasigue | the cottage wall | nom concealment «state transitive»: poss=agent at=place |
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
To discover who the lady was
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 discover | mark |
| 2 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 discover | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lady | det |
| 5 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 who | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 who | cop |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | to-infinitive | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | the lady | tree rules |
Option 2
To ascertain the identity of the lady beyond and to decide whether to rescue her
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 ascertain | mark |
| 2 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 identity | det |
| 4 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identity | nmod |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADV | _ | 2 ascertain | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 decide | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 decide | mark |
| 11 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 ascertain | conj |
| 12 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 rescue | mark |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 rescue | mark |
| 14 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 decide | ccomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rescue | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | to-infinitive | the identity of the lady | beyond property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Topic | ||||
| 2 | decide | to-infinitive | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | rescue not said to happen | to-infinitive | her = she | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 3
To learn who is in the room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 learn | mark |
| 2 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 room | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 room | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 learn | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the room | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To ascertain the identity of the lady beyond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 ascertain | mark |
| 2 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 identity | det |
| 4 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ascertain | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lady | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identity | nmod |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | PUNCT | _ | 2 ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | to-infinitive | the identity of the lady | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=Topic |
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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