Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Mayblossom, part 5: a stormy pro…
Which two objects did the fugitives take from the palace when they fled?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two objects, fugitives · What happens: do, take, flee · To what, where: palace
This is exam question 3 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 did | obj |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 objects | nummod |
| 3 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fugitives | det |
| 6 | fugitives | fugitive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | nsubj |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 fled | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fled | nsubj |
| 13 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | two objects | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | present | the fugitives | the palace | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | fugitives = fugitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
the crown and the scarf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crown | det |
| 2 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 scarf | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 scarf | det |
| 5 | scarf | scarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crown | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the purse and the cloak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 purse | det |
| 2 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cloak | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cloak | det |
| 5 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the dagger and the handkerchief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dagger | det |
| 2 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 handkerchief | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 handkerchief | det |
| 5 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dagger | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the dagger, the handkerchief and the Queen's ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dagger | det |
| 2 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 handkerchief | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 handkerchief | det |
| 5 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dagger | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ring | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queen | det |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ring | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Queen | case |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dagger | conj |
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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