Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 39: the Prince fetche…
Through how many passages of its eye was the muslin drawn, according to the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: eye · What happens: be, draw, accord · To what, where: muslin
This is exam question 2 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 passages | case |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passages | amod |
| 4 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 muslin | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eye | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 muslin | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 muslin | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 muslin | det |
| 10 | muslin | muslin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passages | nmod |
| 11 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 muslin | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 narrative | punct |
| 13 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 narrative | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 according | fixed |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 narrative | det |
| 16 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passages | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 passages | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | its eye | of the muslin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | draw | participle | the muslin not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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
1
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Six
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Four
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 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/e2/