Exam question 3 · Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is…
What measure of length was the leaf of the great book?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: measure · What happens: be, measure · To what, where: leaf, length
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1510 «Blue Fairy Book, The Princess Printanière: the Princess is freed and wed, and Halvor sees a lit castle» 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 measure | det |
| 2 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaf | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 length | case |
| 4 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 measure | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leaf | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 leaf | det |
| 7 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 book | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 book | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 book | amod |
| 11 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaf | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaf | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | what measure of length | the leaf | of the great book | tree rules | |||
| 2 | measure | length | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |
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
furlongs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | furlongs | furlong | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
leagues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
fathoms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fathoms | fathom | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
ells
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ells | ell | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1510-pg540-part7/e3/