Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's…
Identify the name inscribed upon the sand by the drop of water from the Golden Fountain.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, inscribe · To what, where: name, sand
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1699 «Fairy Book, The Invisible Prince: Gnome learns his rival's name, and Rosalie reaches the Golden Isle» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 name | det |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 name | acl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 sand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sand | det |
| 7 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inscribed | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 drop | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drop | det |
| 10 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inscribed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drop | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Fountain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fountain | det |
| 15 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Fountain | amod |
| 16 | Fountain | Fountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 drop | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the name | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inscribe | participle | the name not said here | the sand | by the drop of water from the Golden Fountain | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon sand=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
Flame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The name of the Prince of Flame from the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 name | det |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 name | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Flame | case |
| 7 | Flame | Flame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Prince | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 north | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 north | det |
| 10 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 name | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | the Prince of Flame | the north | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient from=place |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Prince Flame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Flame | compound |
| 2 | Flame | Flame | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Gnome
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gnome | gnome | 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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