Exam question 1 · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the gol…
By what means did the Prince ascertain the identity of the true bride?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prince · What happens: mean, ascertain · To what, where: identity
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1534 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderella, part 31: the golden hemlock and the burnt reindeer skin» 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 | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ascertain | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ascertain | nsubj |
| 7 | ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 identity | det |
| 9 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ascertain | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bride | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bride | det |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bride | amod |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 identity | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | ascertain | past · do-support | the Prince | the identity of the true bride | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent identity=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
the kitchen wench's hidden letter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wench | det |
| 2 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wench | compound |
| 3 | wench | wench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 letter | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 wench | case |
| 5 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 letter | amod |
| 6 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | letter | the kitchen wench | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
the ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the kitchen wench's whispered words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wench | det |
| 2 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wench | compound |
| 3 | wench | wench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 words | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 wench | case |
| 5 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 words | amod |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | word | the kitchen wench | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
a whisper
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 whisper | det |
| 2 | whisper | whisper | 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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