Exam question 4 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Three Oranges, part 60: Désiré oils…

Which fruit did the Prior of Saint Amand dispatch to the Lord of Avesnes, as recorded in the letter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fruit, Prior · What happens: do, record, dispatch · To what, where: Amand dispatch, letter

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1563 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Three Oranges, part 60: Désiré oils the gate, pleases the helpers, and reaches a thirsty sandy plain» 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 fruit	det
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prior	det
5	Prior	Prior	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dispatch	nmod:poss
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Saint	case
7	Saint	Saint	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Prior	nmod
8	Amand	Amand	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dispatch	compound
9	dispatch	dispatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Lord	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lord	det
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Avesnes	case
14	Avesnes	Avesnes	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Lord	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 recorded	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 recorded	mark
17	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 letter	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 letter	det
20	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 recorded	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	which fruit	the Prior of Saint's Amand dispatch		to the Lord of Avesnes	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dispatch=Eventuality
2	record	participle	which fruit not said here		the letter		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in letter=Destination
3	dispatch		the Prior of Saint				nom dispatch «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 · ← Mova's choice

Golden apples from a sunny field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 apples	amod
2	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 field	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 field	det
5	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 field	amod
6	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 apples	nmod

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

Option 2

Lemons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lemons	lemon	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Oranges, described as golden fruit from a sunlit land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 described	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 described	punct
3	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 fruit	case
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fruit	amod
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 described	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 land	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 land	det
9	sunlit	sunlit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 land	amod
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 described	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	participle · passive		Oranges		a sunlit land		as golden fruit	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as fruit=Attribute

Option 4

Quinces from a sunny land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Quinces	quince	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 land	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 land	det
4	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 land	amod
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Quinces	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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