Exam question 4 · Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany thre…
What does Tephany believe Aziliez possesses that she herself lacks?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tephany, Aziliez · What happens: believe, possess · To what, where: Aziliez · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1328 «Breton Tales, Tephany, part 53: a fairy gives Tephany three magic gifts, and she grows vain and sharp» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 believe | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Aziliez | Aziliez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 possesses | nsubj |
| 6 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 herself | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 herself | nsubj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 possesses | obl |
| 10 | lacks | lack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 possesses | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · do-support | Tephany | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | possess | present | Aziliez | Aziliez | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot lack=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
Wisdom
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The beauty that Denis loves most in women
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 beauty | det |
| 2 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loves | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 Denis | mark |
| 4 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 beauty | appos |
| 5 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 loves | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 women | case |
| 8 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 loves | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | the beauty | in women | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
The loveliest face for miles round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 face | det |
| 2 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 face | amod |
| 3 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 miles | case |
| 5 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 face | nmod |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 miles | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Beauty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beauty | beauty | 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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