Exam question 1 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: th…
In which domain is the palace of the queen of the fishes situated?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, situate · To what, where: palace, domain, fishes
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1175 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lazy Girl and the Fish, part 41: the prince wins back Desiree, and the idle girl turns into a fish under the sea» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 domain | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 domain | det |
| 3 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 palace | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 queen | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 palace | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 fishes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fishes | det |
| 12 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 queen | nmod |
| 13 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fishes | acl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 palace | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the palace | which domain | of the queen of the fishes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | situate | participle | the fishes not said here | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=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
Beneath the surface of a lake that lies in the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 3 surface | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 surface | det |
| 3 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surface | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lies | nsubj |
| 8 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lake | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 hills | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hills | det |
| 11 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lies | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a lake | the hills | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hill=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Beneath the surface of the wide and deep northern sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 3 surface | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 surface | det |
| 3 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sea | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 deep | cc |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wide | conj |
| 9 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sea | amod |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surface | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Upon the coast of the island
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 coast | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 coast | det |
| 3 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 island | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coast | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Beneath the surface of the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 3 surface | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 surface | det |
| 3 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surface | 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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