Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…

Which official conveyed the two royal prisoners down into the dungeon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: official · What happens: convey · To what, where: two royal prisoners, dungeon

This is exam question 3 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 official	det
2	official	official	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	nsubj
3	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prisoners	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 prisoners	nummod
6	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prisoners	amod
7	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 conveyed	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	3 conveyed	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 dungeon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dungeon	det
11	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 conveyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	past	which official	the two royal prisoners		the dungeon		down property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prisoner=Topic

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

guard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the steward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 steward	det
2	steward	steward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

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

the boatman

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

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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