Exam question 4 · Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king lo…
What was the youth's proposed remedy for the king's affliction?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: proposed remedy, youth, king · What happens: be, propose, remedy, afflict
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1196 «Lang's Fairy Book, The White Slipper, part 62: the king loses his slipper and a youth offers a cure» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 youth | det |
| 4 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remedy | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 youth | case |
| 6 | proposed | propose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 remedy | amod |
| 7 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 affliction | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 affliction | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remedy | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the youth's proposed remedy for the king's affliction | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | propose | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | remedy | the youth | for the king's affliction | nom remedy «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl | |||||
| 4 | afflict | the king | nom affliction «state 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
a fresh cloth and a healing salve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloth | det |
| 2 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cloth | amod |
| 3 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 salve | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 salve | det |
| 6 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 salve | compound |
| 7 | salve | salve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cloth | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a healing potion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 potion | det |
| 2 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 potion | compound |
| 3 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a new slipper with healing plaster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 slipper | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 slipper | amod |
| 3 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 plaster | case |
| 5 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plaster | compound |
| 6 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipper | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a special brew and some honey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 brew | det |
| 2 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brew | amod |
| 3 | brew | brew | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 honey | cc |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 honey | det |
| 6 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brew | 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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