Exam question 4 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 14: Saphir get…
What did the Frog finally bestow upon the Prince once her anger abated?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Frog, anger · What happens: do, bestow, abate, anger
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1690 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, The Blue Bird, part 14: Saphir gets the bird's branch, then finds a maiden and a palace where the fountain was» 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Frog | det |
| 4 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | nsubj |
| 5 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 6 bestow | advmod |
| 6 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bestow | obl |
| 10 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 13 abated | mark |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 anger | nmod:poss |
| 12 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 abated | nsubj |
| 13 | abated | abate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bestow | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | bestow | present | the Frog | upon the Prince; finally property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | abate | participle | Frog's anger | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | anger | Frog | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: 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
A small green cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cup | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cup | amod |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cup | amod |
| 4 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A cedar tree from Lebanon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 2 | cedar | cedar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | compound |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Lebanon | case |
| 5 | Lebanon | Lebanon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tree | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A golden cage for the bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cage | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cage | amod |
| 3 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 bird | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A tiny diamond stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 stone | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stone | amod |
| 3 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stone | compound |
| 4 | stone | stone | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1690-pg640-part14/e4/