Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the…
Which vessel did the sister fill at the pool with the water of life?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vessel, sister · What happens: do, fill · To what, where: pool
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1645 «Fairy Book, The Wounded Lion, part 34: the sister wins the water of life, then a girl follows a wounded lion» 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 vessel | det |
| 2 | vessel | vessel | 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 sister | det |
| 5 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fill | nsubj |
| 6 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 pool | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pool | det |
| 9 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fill | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pool | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 water | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which vessel | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fill | present | the sister | the pool with the water of life | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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 golden bottle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bottle | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bottle | amod |
| 3 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a big copper kettle with a cover
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kettle | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kettle | amod |
| 3 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kettle | compound |
| 4 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 cover | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cover | det |
| 7 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kettle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a brazen pitcher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pitcher | det |
| 2 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pitcher | amod |
| 3 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a clay pot from the mountain spring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pot | det |
| 2 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pot | compound |
| 3 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 spring | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spring | det |
| 6 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spring | compound |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pot | 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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