Exam question 1 · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…
To whom did the King transmit his order of execution?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: transmit, order · To what, where: order, execution
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1464 «Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the King orders Miranda killed, and her faithful animals die for her» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 whom | case |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 transmit | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 transmit | nsubj |
| 6 | transmit | transmit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 whom | acl:relcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 order | nmod:poss |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 transmit | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 execution | case |
| 10 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 order | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 whom | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transmit | past · do-support | the King | King's order of execution | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | King | execution | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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
To the Captain of his Bodyguard and his household
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Captain | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Captain | det |
| 3 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Bodyguard | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Bodyguard | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Bodyguard | Bodyguard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Captain | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 household | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 household | nmod:poss |
| 9 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Bodyguard | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
To the Captain of the Guard, who was also the King's cousin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Captain | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Captain | det |
| 3 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Guard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Guard | det |
| 6 | Guard | Guard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Captain | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cousin | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 cousin | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cousin | cop |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 cousin | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 King | case |
| 14 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Captain | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Captain of the Guard | the King's cousin | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
To the Captain of his Bodyguard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 Captain | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Captain | det |
| 3 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Bodyguard | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Bodyguard | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Bodyguard | bodyguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Captain | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
To the head of the palace guards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 head | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 head | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 guards | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 guards | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guards | compound |
| 7 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 head | nmod |
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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