Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Yellow Dwarf, part 9: the Dwarf claims Be…
Whom did the Princess select as her future husband?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: select
This is exam question 4 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 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 select | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 select | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princess | det |
| 4 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 select | nsubj |
| 5 | select | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 husband | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 husband | amod |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 select | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 select | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | past · do-support | the Princess | as Princess's future husband | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent whom=Theme as husband=Attribute |
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 King of the Gold Mines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mines | nmod:desc |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Gold | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Gold | det |
| 5 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 6 | Mines | Mines | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the King of the Gold Mines from far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mines | nmod:poss |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Gold | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Gold | det |
| 5 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 6 | Mines | Mine | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 far | case |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 Mines | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the King of the Silver Mines
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Mines | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mines | det |
| 5 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Mines | compound |
| 6 | Mines | Mines | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the Prince of the Desert
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Desert | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Desert | det |
| 5 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | nmod |
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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