Exam question 1 · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: the wife opens the for…
Upon what surface did the wife observe the accumulated blood, according to the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: surface, wife · What happens: do, observe, accumulate, accord · To what, where: accumulated blood
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1481 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Blue Beard: the wife opens the forbidden closet and is saved by her brothers» 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wife | det |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observe | nsubj |
| 7 | observe | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blood | det |
| 9 | accumulated | accumulate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 blood | amod |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observe | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 narrative | punct |
| 12 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 narrative | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 according | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 narrative | det |
| 15 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 observe | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | surface | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | observe | present | the wife | the accumulated blood | accord the narrative | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blood=Topic | |||
| 3 | accumulate | participle | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | 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 · ← Mova's choice
the stone floor of the closet on the ground level
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floor | compound |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 closet | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 closet | det |
| 6 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floor | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 level | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 level | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 level | compound |
| 10 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closet | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the floor of the closet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 floor | det |
| 2 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 closet | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 closet | det |
| 5 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floor | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 floor | det |
| 2 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the stone wall of the hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wall | compound |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wall | 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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