Exam question 1 · Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Pr…

Upon what object was the Princess's hand to be pierced, according to the elder Fairy's decree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: elder Fairy · What happens: be, pierce, accord, decree · To what, where: hand

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1427 «Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Princess pricks her hand, falls asleep, and wakes when a Prince finds her» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 object	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 object	nsubj
3	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hand	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hand	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 hand	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Princess	case
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	11 pierced	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 pierced	aux:pass
11	pierced	pierce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hand	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 decree	punct
13	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 decree	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 according	fixed
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Fairy	det
16	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Fairy	amod
17	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 decree	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 Fairy	case
19	decree	decree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pierced	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 hand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Princess's hand	upon object	tree rules
2	pierce	to-infinitive · passive			accord the elder Fairy's decree	vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»
3	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	decree		the elder Fairy			nom decree «communication intransitive»: 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

a silver pin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pin	det
2	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pin	amod
3	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a thorn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thorn	det
2	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a needle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 needle	det
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a spindle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spindle	det
2	spindle	spindle	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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