Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Prince and the Bee, part 30: the bee-princ…
Through which opening did the prince, in the form of an insect, enter the princess's chamber?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: opening, you · What happens: do, enter, form · To what, where: prince, form, chamber, insect
This is exam question 2 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 | Through | through | SCONJ | _ | 4 did | mark |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 opening | det |
| 3 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 enter | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 form | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 form | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 insect | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 insect | det |
| 13 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 form | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 15 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 princess | case |
| 19 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enter | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 enter | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which opening | the prince | the form of a insect | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | enter | imperative | you not said here | the princess's chamber | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination | ||||
| 3 | form | a insect | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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
The window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 window | det |
| 2 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The keyhole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 keyhole | det |
| 2 | keyhole | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The narrow crack under the great oak door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crack | det |
| 2 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crack | amod |
| 3 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 door | amod |
| 7 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 door | compound |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crack | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The little grille high up in the eastern wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grille | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grille | amod |
| 3 | grille | grille | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 up | advmod |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 grille | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 8 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wall | amod |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grille | 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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