Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the…
Why did the gnome perform the repeated counting of the turnips in the meadow?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gnome, turnips · What happens: perform, repeat, count · To what, where: repeated counting
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1252 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the princess tricks the gnome and escapes» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 perform | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 perform | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gnome | det |
| 4 | gnome | gnome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perform | nsubj |
| 5 | perform | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 counting | det |
| 7 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 counting | amod |
| 8 | counting | counting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 perform | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 turnips | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 turnips | det |
| 11 | turnips | turnip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 counting | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 meadow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 meadow | det |
| 14 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turnips | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 perform | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | past · do-support | the gnome | the repeated counting of the turnips in the meadow | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counting=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | count | the turnips in the meadow | nom counting «act intransitive»: of=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
to test the princess's patience at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 test | mark |
| 2 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 patience | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 princess | case |
| 6 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 test | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 test | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | test | to-infinitive | the princess's patience | night | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Theme |
Option 2
to win the princess's love
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 win | mark |
| 2 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 love | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 princess | case |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 win | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | to-infinitive | the princess's love | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | love | the princess | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
to keep the turnips in order
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 keep | mark |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 turnips | det |
| 4 | turnips | turnip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 keep | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 order | case |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | to-infinitive | the turnips | order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent turnip=Theme in order=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
to satisfy the princess's test of his truth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 satisfy | mark |
| 2 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 test | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 princess | case |
| 6 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 satisfy | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 truth | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 truth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 test | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | satisfy | to-infinitive | the princess's test of his truth | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus test=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | test | the princess | his truth | nom test «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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