Exam question 2 · Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood,…
In which country were the descendants of the lost children discovered?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, lose, discover · To what, where: descendants, country, lost children
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1553 «Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood, part 1: a clever girl, a sly wolf, and a hood that burns» 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 country | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 descendants | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 descendants | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 descendants | det |
| 6 | descendants | descendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 children | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 children | amod |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 descendants | nmod |
| 11 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 children | acl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 descendants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the descendants | which country | of the lost children | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | discover | participle | the lost children not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice
Bohemia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bohemia | bohemia | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Transylvania
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transylvania | Transylvania | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Wallachia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wallachia | Wallachia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Westphalia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westphalia | Westphalia | PROPN | 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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