Exam question 1 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid'…
Which object did the Mermaid bestow upon the King for his protection?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: object, Mermaid · What happens: do, bestow, protect
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1425 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 12: the Mermaid's trick, the diamond sword, and the King's fight to reach Bellissima» 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mermaid | det |
| 5 | Mermaid | Mermaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | nsubj |
| 6 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | obl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 protection | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 protection | nmod:poss |
| 12 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bestow | present | the Mermaid | upon the King; for Mermaid's protection | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | protect | Mermaid | nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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
A sword fashioned from a single diamond
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fashioned | nsubj |
| 3 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 diamond | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 diamond | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 diamond | amod |
| 7 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fashioned | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A sword fashioned from a great single ruby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fashioned | nsubj |
| 3 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 ruby | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ruby | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ruby | amod |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ruby | amod |
| 8 | ruby | ruby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fashioned | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A sword fashioned from a single diamond and gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sword | det |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fashioned | nsubj |
| 3 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 diamond | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 diamond | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 diamond | amod |
| 7 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fashioned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gold | cc |
| 9 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 diamond | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A shield of silver from the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shield | det |
| 2 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 silver | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shield | nmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shield | 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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