Exam question 4 · Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duc…
To which place did the Princess retire alone before the procession departed?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: retire, depart
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1541 «Yellow Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 38: the Duchess gets her gold and is thrown from the horse» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 place | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 place | det |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retire | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 retire | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 6 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retire | nsubj |
| 7 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 7 retire | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 procession | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 procession | det |
| 11 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retire | obl |
| 12 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 retire | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 retire | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | past · do-support | the Princess | before the procession | to which place; alone property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | depart | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 little wood with a mossy bank beside a clear stream
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wood | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wood | amod |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 bank | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 6 | mossy | mossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bank | amod |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wood | nmod |
| 8 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 stream | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stream | det |
| 10 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stream | amod |
| 11 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wood | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a quiet glade near the lake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 glade | det |
| 2 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 glade | amod |
| 3 | glade | glade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glade | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
the royal gardens behind the palace where the roses grew wild
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gardens | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gardens | amod |
| 3 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 palace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grew | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 grew | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roses | det |
| 9 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grew | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the royal gardens | the palace | wild property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind palace=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a little wood with a mossy bank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wood | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wood | amod |
| 3 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 bank | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 6 | mossy | mossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bank | amod |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wood | nmod |
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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