Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfarona…

Which provision did the oak tree supply to the Princess?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: provision · What happens: do · To what, where: tree supply

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1509 «Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfaronade eats all the food and the Princess vanishes» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 provision	det
2	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 supply	det
5	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 supply	compound
7	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Princess	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which provision	the tree supply				to the Princess	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supply=Eventuality

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

A basket of berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 basket	det
2	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 berries	case
4	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 basket	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A pitcher of milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pitcher	det
2	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 milk	case
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pitcher	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A large pitcher of fresh milk and a warm loaf of bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pitcher	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pitcher	amod
3	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 milk	case
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 milk	amod
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pitcher	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 loaf	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 loaf	det
9	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 loaf	amod
10	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 milk	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 bread	case
12	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loaf	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A bowl of soup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bowl	det
2	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 soup	case
4	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bowl	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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