Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship…
What did the queen of the mice resolve to do concerning the captain?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: queen · What happens: do, resolve, concern · To what, where: captain
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1415 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 2: the golden ship turns black after the old man steals the ring» 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 queen | det |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resolve | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mice | det |
| 7 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 queen | nmod |
| 8 | resolve | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 resolve | xcomp |
| 11 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 do | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 captain | det |
| 13 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concerning | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | resolve | present | the queen of the mice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | the queen of the mice not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | concern | gerund | the queen of the mice not said here | the captain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus captain=Experiencer |
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
She resolved to hold a council and then decide whether to send a deputation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 resolved | nsubj |
| 2 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 hold | mark |
| 4 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 resolved | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 council | det |
| 6 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 decide | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 decide | advmod |
| 9 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 2 resolved | conj |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 send | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 send | mark |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 decide | xcomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deputation | det |
| 14 | deputation | deputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | She | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | She not said here | a council | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | ||||
| 3 | decide | present | She not said here | then | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | She not said here | a deputation | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deputation=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
She resolved to send a deputation
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 resolved | nsubj |
| 2 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 send | mark |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 resolved | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deputation | det |
| 6 | deputation | deputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | She | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | She not said here | a deputation | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deputation=Theme |
Option 3
She resolved to send a deputation of her bravest mice to the captain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 resolved | nsubj |
| 2 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 send | mark |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 resolved | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 deputation | det |
| 6 | deputation | deputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mice | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 mice | amod |
| 10 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 deputation | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 captain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 captain | det |
| 13 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | She | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | She not said here | a deputation of her bravest mice | the captain | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent deputation=Theme to captain=Destination |
Option 4
She ordered his capture
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 capture | nmod:poss |
| 4 | capture | capture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | She | his capture | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capture=Theme | ||||
| 2 | capture | his = he | nom capture «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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