Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfarona…
Which character first proposed that the Princess had been enticed by the Ambassador?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: character, Ambassador · What happens: propose, entice · To what, where: Princess
This is exam question 4 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 character | det |
| 2 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proposed | nsubj |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 proposed | advmod |
| 4 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 enticed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 enticed | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 enticed | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 enticed | aux:pass |
| 10 | enticed | entice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 proposed | ccomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Ambassador | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Ambassador | det |
| 13 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 enticed | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 proposed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | which character | first property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | entice | past · perfect · passive | the Ambassador | the Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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 Admiral
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Admiral | det |
| 2 | Admiral | admiral | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The King's Chancellor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Chancellor | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | Chancellor | Chancellor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Prime Minister
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Minister | det |
| 2 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 3 Minister | compound |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The royal nurse who had kept watch over the tower window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nurse | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nurse | amod |
| 3 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kept | aux |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 nurse | acl:relcl |
| 7 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 window | compound |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past · perfect · passive | the royal nurse | the tower window | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme over window=Location |
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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