Exam question 1 · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…
By what means did the prince identify the true princess among the three disguised figures?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince, three · What happens: mean, identify, disguise · To what, where: true princess, figures
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 identify | obl |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 identify | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 identify | nsubj |
| 7 | identify | identify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 princess | det |
| 9 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 princess | amod |
| 10 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 identify | obj |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 three | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 three | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 disguised | nsubj |
| 14 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 identify | parataxis |
| 15 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 disguised | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | identify | past · do-support | the prince | the true princess | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 3 | disguise | past | the three | figures | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme figure=Destination |
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
by the way she walked to the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 walked | nsubj |
| 5 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | she | by the way; to the door result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to door=Result |
Option 2
by the gold ring upon her hand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 ring | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | compound |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
by her silver voice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 voice | case |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 voice | nmod:poss |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 voice | compound |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
by the red silk thread upon her finger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 thread | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thread | det |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thread | amod |
| 4 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thread | compound |
| 5 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 finger | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 finger | nmod:poss |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thread | 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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