Exam question 3 · Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Pr…
By whom was the sleeping Princess awakened at the close of the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: be, awaken · To what, where: close
This is exam question 3 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 5 sleeping | case |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 sleeping | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sleeping | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sleeping | det |
| 5 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awakened | obl |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 awakened | nsubj |
| 7 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 close | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 close | det |
| 10 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 awakened | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 narrative | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 narrative | det |
| 13 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 close | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 awakened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | by the sleeping | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | awaken | past | Princess | the close of the narrative | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at close=Location |
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
a passing knight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 2 | passing | passing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a brave prince who had crossed the thorny forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 crossed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 crossed | aux |
| 6 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 prince | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 8 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 forest | amod |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crossed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · perfect | a brave prince | the thorny forest | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a king's son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a prince from a distant kingdom across the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 kingdom | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kingdom | det |
| 5 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kingdom | amod |
| 6 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prince | nmod |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kingdom | 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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