Exam question 2 · Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa…

Which object was interred by the Queen's command in place of the Princess?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: command, Queen · What happens: inter, command · To what, where: object, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1543 «Blue Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 40: Graciosa tricks the Queen with the thread, then faces a barrel of mixed-up feathers» 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 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 interred	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 interred	aux:pass
4	interred	inter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 command	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Queen	det
7	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 command	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Queen	case
9	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 interred	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 place	case
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 command	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Princess	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Princess	det
14	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 interred	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inter	past · passive	the Queen's command in place of the Princess	which object					tree rules
2	command		the Queen			place of the Princess			nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

A stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A sack of flour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sack	det
2	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 flour	case
4	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sack	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A log of wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 log	det
2	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wood	case
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 log	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	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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