Exam question 3 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinne…
Which emotion did the King display upon recognising the Princess and hearing her name?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emotion, King display · What happens: do, recognise, hear, name · To what, where: King display, Princess, name
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1527 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinners lead the King to the real 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 emotion | det |
| 2 | emotion | emotion | 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 | 6 display | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 display | compound |
| 6 | display | display | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 8 recognising | mark |
| 8 | recognising | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 display | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 recognising | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hearing | cc |
| 12 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 recognising | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hearing | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which emotion | the King display | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent display=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | recognise | gerund | the King display not said here | the Princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | gerund | the King display not said here | emotion's name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | name | emotion | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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
a deep and tearful love for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 love | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 love | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 tearful | cc |
| 4 | tearful | tearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 deep | conj |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
sincere affection
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sincere | sincere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 affection | amod |
| 2 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a great and utter shock and disbelief
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shock | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shock | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 utter | cc |
| 4 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 great | conj |
| 5 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 disbelief | cc |
| 7 | disbelief | disbelief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shock | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
cruel contempt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 contempt | amod |
| 2 | contempt | contempt | 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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