Exam question 1 · Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries…
Which appearance does the Fairy of the Desert adopt upon her first encounter with the King?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: appearance, Fairy · What happens: do, adopt, encounter · To what, where: Fairy
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1424 «Yellow Dwarf, The Yellow Dwarf, part 11: the Fairy carries the King away, and a mermaid offers to save him» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 appearance | det |
| 2 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 5 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Desert | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Desert | det |
| 8 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 adopt | obl |
| 9 | adopt | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Fairy | acl:relcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 encounter | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 encounter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 encounter | amod |
| 13 | encounter | encounter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 adopt | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 encounter | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | which appearance | the Fairy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | adopt | present | the Fairy not said here | of the Desert; upon appearance's first encounter with the King | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | encounter | appearance | with the King | nom encounter «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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
A tall and stern old woman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 2 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stern | cc |
| 4 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tall | conj |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A young and beautiful fairy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fairy | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fairy | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 beautiful | cc |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 young | conj |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A pale, sickly wandering maiden
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sickly | det |
| 2 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sickly | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 pale | punct |
| 4 | sickly | sickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sickly | advcl |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wandering | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | maiden property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
A radiant goddess of the sea and the stars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 goddess | det |
| 2 | radiant | radiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goddess | amod |
| 3 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goddess | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stars | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stars | det |
| 9 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 goddess | conj |
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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