Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…

Which object did the youngest Prince take from his pocket, having been instructed to open it only before the King?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object, youngest Prince · What happens: do, take, instruct, open · To what, where: pocket, object

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1452 «Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetches muslin from a millet seed and is sent for a princess» 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 object	det
2	object	object	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	6 Prince	det
5	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 Prince	amod
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 did	ccomp
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 pocket	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pocket	nmod:poss
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 instructed	punct
12	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 instructed	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 instructed	aux:pass
14	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 open	mark
16	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 instructed	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 open	obj
18	only	only	ADV	_	21 King	advmod
19	before	before	ADP	_	21 King	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 open	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	do	past	which object				tree rules
2	take	infinitive	the youngest Prince		Prince's pocket		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from pocket=Initial_Location
3	instruct speech: other	gerund · perfect · passive	which object not said here				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic
4	open	to-infinitive	which object not said here	object		before the King	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme before king=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 · ← Mova's choice

A nut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

A hazelnut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A walnut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

A bean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1452-pg503-part39/e1/