Exam question 1 · Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the…
Which of the following princes succeeded to the throne upon the decease of the King and Queen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: following princes, King · What happens: follow, succeed, decease
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1525 «Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the brothers find the King of the Peacocks and go to prison» 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 | 6 succeeded | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 princes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princes | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 princes | amod |
| 5 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 succeeded | nsubj |
| 6 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 throne | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throne | det |
| 9 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 succeeded | obl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 decease | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 decease | det |
| 12 | decease | decease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throne | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 decease | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Queen | cc |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 succeeded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | succeed | past | the following princes | to the throne upon the decease of the King and Queen | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | decease | the King and Queen | nom decease «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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 Eldest Brother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Brother | det |
| 2 | Eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 Brother | amod |
| 3 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Great Prince of the Peacocks' northern kingdom
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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Peacocks | det |
| 6 | Peacocks | peacock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 6 Peacocks | case |
| 8 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 kingdom | amod |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the Great Prince
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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the youngest Prince of the royal house
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 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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