Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…
In what order were the animals summoned by the king to recover the giant's soul?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, summon, recover · To what, where: animals, order, soul
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 order | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 order | det |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 animals | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 animals | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 animals | det |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 animals | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 summoned | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 recover | mark |
| 12 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 summoned | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 soul | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 giant | case |
| 16 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 recover | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 animals | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the animals | what order | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | summon | participle | the animals not said here | by the king | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | recover | to-infinitive | the giant's soul | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme |
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
Hawk, dog, duck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dog | punct |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hawk | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 duck | punct |
| 5 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hawk | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Dog, hawk, otter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hawk | punct |
| 3 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dog | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 otter | punct |
| 5 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dog | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Dog, hawk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hawk | punct |
| 3 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dog | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Otter, dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Otter | Otter | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dog | punct |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Otter | appos |
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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