Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-princ…
From which creature did the prince obtain the hair that enabled his transformation?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince, hair · What happens: do, obtain, enable, transform · To what, where: creature, hair, transformation
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1229 «Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-prince steals the sword, and the mermaid pulls him under the waves» 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 creature | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 creature | det |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obtain | nsubj |
| 7 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hair | det |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 obtain | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 enabled | nsubj |
| 11 | enabled | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 hair | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 transformation | nmod:poss |
| 13 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enabled | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which creature | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | obtain | present | the prince | the hair | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enable | past | the hair | prince's transformation | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | transform | prince | nom transformation «event 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 wasp that lived in the hollow oak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wasp | det |
| 2 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wasp | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 oak | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 oak | det |
| 7 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 oak | amod |
| 8 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a wasp | the hollow oak | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in oak=Location |
Option 2
A moth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 moth | det |
| 2 | moth | moth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
A talking swallow from the palace roof garden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 swallow | det |
| 2 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swallow | compound |
| 3 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roof | compound |
| 7 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 garden | compound |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swallow | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A bee
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bee | det |
| 2 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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