Exam question 4 · Perrault, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, part 14: the Pr…
What penalty attached to the King's proclamation against spindles?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: attach, proclaim
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 attached | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attached | nsubj |
| 3 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 proclamation | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 proclamation | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 King | case |
| 8 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 attached | obl |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 spindles | case |
| 10 | spindles | spindle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 proclamation | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 attached | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attach | participle · passive | to the King's proclamation against spindles | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to proclamation=Co-Patient | |||||
| 2 | proclaim | the King | against spindles | nom proclamation «communication transitive»: poss=agent against=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
ban
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | ban | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
prison
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | death | death | 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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