Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, part 1: a p…

Beside which location did the Queen await Felicia's return?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Queen, Felicia · What happens: do, await, return · To what, where: location, return

This is exam question 4 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	Beside	beside	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Queen	det
6	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 await	nsubj
7	await	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	Felicia	Felicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 return	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Felicia	case
10	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 await	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	do	past			which location	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	await	present	the Queen	Felicia's return		tree rules
3	return		Felicia			nom return «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 · ✓ the right answer

beside the fountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	3 fountain	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fountain	det
3	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

beside the old oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beside	beside	ADP	_	4 oak	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 oak	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 oak	amod
4	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

by the well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 well	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 well	det
3	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

under the tall elm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	under	under	ADP	_	4 elm	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 elm	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 elm	amod
4	elm	elm	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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