Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, The King of the Peacocks, part 22: the…
What sum did the brothers stipulate as the dowry of the Princess Rosette?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sum, brothers · What happens: do, stipulate
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 sum | det |
| 2 | sum | sum | 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 | 5 brothers | det |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stipulate | nsubj |
| 6 | stipulate | stipulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 dowry | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dowry | det |
| 9 | dowry | dowry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stipulate | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Rosette | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rosette | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Rosette | compound |
| 13 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dowry | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | what sum | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stipulate | present | the brothers | as the dowry of the Princess Rosette | tree rules |
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
a bushel of gold pieces and a herd of cows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bushel | det |
| 2 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pieces | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pieces | compound |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bushel | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 herd | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 herd | det |
| 8 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pieces | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cows | case |
| 10 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 herd | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a bushel of gold pieces and all of their father's farmland
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bushel | det |
| 2 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pieces | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pieces | compound |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bushel | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 all | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 pieces | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 farmland | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 farmland | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 father | case |
| 12 | farmland | farmland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 all | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a bushel of gold pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bushel | det |
| 2 | bushel | bushel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pieces | case |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pieces | compound |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bushel | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a barrel of silver pieces
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 barrel | det |
| 2 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pieces | case |
| 4 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pieces | compound |
| 5 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 barrel | 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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