Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, part 1: a p…
Which gift did the Queen bestow upon Felicia at the fountain?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gift, Queen · What happens: do, bestow · To what, where: fountain
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1448 «Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, part 1: a poor girl is cheated of her pinks and is rewarded by a Queen with a golden pitcher» 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 gift | det |
| 2 | gift | gift | 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 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | 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 | _ | 8 Felicia | case |
| 8 | Felicia | Felicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 fountain | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fountain | det |
| 11 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which gift | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bestow | present | the Queen | the fountain | upon Felicia | tree rules |
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 flask of gold and emeralds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 flask | det |
| 2 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flask | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 emeralds | cc |
| 6 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 flask | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a pitcher of gold and diamonds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pitcher | det |
| 2 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pitcher | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 diamonds | cc |
| 6 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 pitcher | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a pitcher of gold and diamonds and a silver crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 pitcher | det |
| 2 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 gold | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pitcher | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 diamonds | cc |
| 6 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gold | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 crown | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crown | det |
| 9 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crown | amod |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pitcher | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a golden pitcher full of gold, diamonds and rubies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pitcher | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pitcher | amod |
| 3 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pitcher | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 diamonds | punct |
| 8 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pitcher | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rubies | cc |
| 10 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 diamonds | 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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