Exam question 3 · Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back t…
exam: Which creature restored the handkerchief to Jose?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: exam · What happens: restore · To what, where: handkerchief, Jose
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1187 «Spanish Tales, Bella-Flor, the horse helps Jose win back the three lost things and survive the oil, and a new tale begins with a crystal cradle» 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 | exam | exam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 restored | nsubj |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 restored | punct |
| 3 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 creature | det |
| 4 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 restored | nsubj |
| 5 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 handkerchief | det |
| 7 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 restored | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Jose | case |
| 9 | Jose | Jose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 handkerchief | nmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 restored | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | past | exam | the handkerchief | Jose | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme to jose=Recipient |
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
a little bird that had followed the princess home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bird | amod |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 followed | aux |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bird | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 followed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · perfect · passive | a little bird | home property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme princess=Attribute |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
an eagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a falcon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 falcon | det |
| 2 | falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a great eagle that had nested on the cliff
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 eagle | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eagle | amod |
| 3 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 nested | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 nested | aux |
| 6 | nested | nest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 eagle | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 cliff | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cliff | det |
| 9 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nested | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nest | past · perfect · passive | a great eagle | the cliff | vn berry-13.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Location |
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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