Exam question 4 · Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refus…
exam: What object did the King hold before the Princess?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do · To what, where: exam
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1554 «Blue Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 1: a prince refuses a wedding and finds magic in his tower» 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 | exam | exam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 exam | punct |
| 3 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 did | obj |
| 4 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 exam | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hold | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | compound |
| 8 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 exam | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | object | exam | before the Princess | tree rules |
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 cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cup | det |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a painting
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 painting | det |
| 2 | painting | painting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a lantern
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lantern | det |
| 2 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a mirror
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 mirror | det |
| 2 | mirror | mirror | 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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