Exam question 1 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…
By whose agency was the Princess Rosette committed to the waters?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess Rosette · What happens: be
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the Princess» 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 agency | case |
| 2 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 agency | nmod:poss |
| 3 | agency | agency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 committed | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 committed | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rosette | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rosette | compound |
| 7 | Rosette | Rosette | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 committed | nsubj |
| 8 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 waters | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 waters | det |
| 11 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 committed | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 committed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Princess Rosette | by agency; to the waters; commit property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
the nurse and the boatman
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 boatman | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boatman | det |
| 5 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nurse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the boatman and the cook
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boatman | det |
| 2 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cook | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cook | det |
| 5 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boatman | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the gaoler
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gaoler | det |
| 2 | gaoler | gaoler | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the King's own guards
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 | 5 guards | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 guards | amod |
| 5 | guards | guard | 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.
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