Exam question 1 · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…
On whose behalf did the Ambassador Fanfaronade come to fetch the Princess?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ambassador Fanfaronade · What happens: do, come, fetch · To what, where: behalf, Princess
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1508 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy procession, a cursed scarf, a midnight escape by boat» 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 behalf | case |
| 2 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 behalf | nmod:poss |
| 3 | behalf | behalf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fanfaronade | det |
| 6 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Fanfaronade | compound |
| 7 | Fanfaronade | Fanfaronade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fetch | mark |
| 10 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 come | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fetch | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | behalf | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | present | the Ambassador Fanfaronade | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | the Ambassador Fanfaronade not said here | the Princess | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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 right answer
King Merlin's son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 King | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Duke of Bruges
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Duke | det |
| 2 | Duke | Duke | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Bruges | case |
| 4 | Bruges | Bruges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Duke | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
King Pompon's heir
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heir | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Pompon | Pompon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 King | case |
| 4 | heir | heir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the young Prince of Westphalia himself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Westphalia | case |
| 5 | Westphalia | Westphalia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | nmod |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 Prince | 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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