Exam question 1 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the younges…
By what means did the youngest prince descend into the well?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest prince · What happens: mean, do, descend · To what, where: well
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1292 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the youngest prince goes down the well and the pair escape the giants» 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 6 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 prince | amod |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descend | nsubj |
| 8 | descend | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 well | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 well | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descend | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | descend | present | the youngest prince | the well | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into well=Location |
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
By rope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 rope | case |
| 2 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
By a wooden cart on a long iron chain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 cart | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cart | det |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cart | amod |
| 4 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 chain | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chain | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chain | amod |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chain | compound |
| 9 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cart | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
By a basket suspended from silk rope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 basket | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 basket | det |
| 3 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 basket | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 rope | case |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rope | compound |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 suspended | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspend | participle | a basket not said here | silk rope | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from rope=Source |
Option 4
In a bucket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 bucket | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bucket | det |
| 3 | bucket | bucket | 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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