Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Be…
What reason did Bellissima give for seeking the counsel of the Fairy?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bellissima · What happens: give, seek · To what, where: counsel
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1422 «Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Bellissima, and she agrees to marry the Gold King» 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 | 5 give | obj |
| 2 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | Bellissima | Bellissima | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 seeking | mark |
| 7 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 give | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 counsel | det |
| 9 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seeking | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Fairy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fairy | det |
| 12 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 counsel | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · do-support | Bellissima | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | Bellissima not said here | the counsel of the Fairy | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=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 · ✓ the right answer
the Queen's sadness and whether to marry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sadness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Queen | case |
| 4 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 marry | cc |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 marry | mark |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sadness | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | to-infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
the Queen's illness and the wedding
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 illness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Queen | case |
| 4 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wedding | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 illness | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
her father's health and a dream
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 health | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 father | case |
| 4 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dream | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dream | det |
| 7 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 health | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the Queen's sadness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Queen | det |
| 2 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sadness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Queen | case |
| 4 | sadness | sadness | 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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