Exam question 2 · Project Gutenberg pg503, Princess Miranda, part 51: the Ki…
What token was the Captain required to bring back as evidence of the execution?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: token · What happens: be, bring back, evidence · To what, where: execution
This is exam question 2 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 token | det |
| 2 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 required | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 required | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Captain | det |
| 5 | Captain | Captain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 required | nsubj |
| 6 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 bring | mark |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 required | xcomp |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 bring | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 evidence | case |
| 11 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 execution | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 execution | det |
| 14 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 evidence | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 required | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | what token | require property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring back | to-infinitive | what token not said here | as evidence of the execution | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | evidence | the execution | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
the Princess's heart and tongue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Princess | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tongue | cc |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Princess's heart, tongue and the dog's collar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Princess | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tongue | punct |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 collar | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 collar | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 dog | case |
| 11 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the Princess's golden crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 crown | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Princess | case |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 crown | amod |
| 5 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | the Princess | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
the Princess's heart and tongue wrapped in silk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Princess | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tongue | cc |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | conj |
| 7 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heart | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 silk | case |
| 9 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | participle | the Princess's heart and tongue not said here | silk | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in silk=Destination |
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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