Exam question 1 · Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides…
In what manner does the King convey the Queen from her chamber?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: convey · To what, where: Queen, manner
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1538 «Red Fairy Book, The Queen Mouse, part 35: the Queen hides her baby in a basket after a mouse brings luck» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 convey | obl |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 convey | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 convey | nsubj |
| 7 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 convey | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 chamber | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 convey | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 convey | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | convey | present · do-support | the King | the Queen | what manner | from her chamber | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent queen=Theme from chamber=Initial_Location |
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
By the hair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 hair | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hair | det |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
By slinging her over his shoulder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 slinging | mark |
| 2 | slinging | sling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 slinging | obj |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 shoulder | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 6 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 slinging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sling | gerund | her = she | his shoulder | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent her=Theme over shoulder=Destination |
Option 3
By dragging her across the floor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 dragging | mark |
| 2 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dragging | obj |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floor | det |
| 6 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dragging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | gerund | her = she | the floor | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
Option 4
By lifting her in his arms
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 lifting | mark |
| 2 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifting | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 arms | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lifting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | gerund | her = she | his arms | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in arm=Destination |
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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