Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…
What was the purpose of Graciosa's request made to Percinet on the final day?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: purpose, request, Graciosa · What happens: be, make, purpose, request · To what, where: request
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 purpose | det |
| 4 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 request | case |
| 6 | Graciosa | Graciosa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 request | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Graciosa | case |
| 8 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 purpose | nmod |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 request | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Percinet | case |
| 11 | Percinet | Percinet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl:agent |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the purpose of Graciosa's request | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | Graciosa's request not said here | day | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | purpose | Graciosa's request | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | request | Graciosa | nom request «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 · ✓ the right answer
to learn the reason given to the King for her disappearance
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 learn | mark |
| 2 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reason | det |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 learn | obj |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 reason | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 disappearance | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 disappearance | nmod:poss |
| 11 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | to-infinitive | the reason | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | participle | the reason not said here | the King | for her disappearance | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient for disappearance=Asset | |||
| 3 | disappear | her = she | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
to see the Queen again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 see | mark |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 see | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | the Queen | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
Option 3
to learn why the Queen dismissed her knights in shame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 learn | mark |
| 2 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 dismissed | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dismissed | nsubj |
| 6 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 learn | ccomp |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knights | nmod:poss |
| 8 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dismissed | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 shame | case |
| 10 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dismissed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | dismiss | past | the Queen | Queen's knights | shame | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Theme |
Option 4
to find out what the King had been told about her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 find | compound:prt |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 told | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 told | aux:pass |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 find | ccomp |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the King | about her = she | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient what=Topic |
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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