Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming…

Which of the creatures did Charming preserve by severing the cords of a net?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Charming · What happens: preserve, sever · To what, where: cords

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1459 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Goldilocks, part 46: Charming is freed, sent to win the Princess, and helped on the road by a carp, a raven and an owl» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 preserve	obj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 creatures	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 creatures	det
4	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 preserve	obl
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 preserve	aux
6	Charming	Charming	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 preserve	nsubj
7	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	by	by	SCONJ	_	9 severing	mark
9	severing	sever	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 preserve	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cords	det
11	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 severing	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 net	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 net	det
14	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cords	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 preserve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	preserve	past · do-support	Charming					of the creatures	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary
2	sever	gerund	Charming not said here	the cords of a net					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Theme

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

The eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The owl, which had been trapped in a net by bird-catchers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 trapped	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 trapped	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trapped	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 trapped	aux:pass
7	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 owl	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 net	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 net	det
10	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trapped	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	14 catchers	case
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 catchers	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 bird	punct
14	catchers	catcher	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 trapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	past · perfect · passive	bird catchers	the owl		a net			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in net=Destination

Option 3

The raven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 raven	det
2	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	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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