Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an…
Identify the form which the King assumed in order to fly across the several countries described in the text.
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, King · What happens: identify, assume, fly, describe · To what, where: form, order, several countries, text
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1701 «Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an eagle, steals a Princess and hides her in a magic palace» 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 form | det |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 assumed | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 assumed | nsubj |
| 7 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 form | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 order | case |
| 9 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assumed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fly | mark |
| 11 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 assumed | advcl |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 15 countries | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 countries | det |
| 14 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 countries | amod |
| 15 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fly | obl |
| 16 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 countries | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 text | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 text | det |
| 19 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 described | obl |
| 20 | . | . | 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 form | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 2 | assume | past | the King | the form | order | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | fly | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the several countries | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across country=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | describe | participle | the several countries not said here | the text | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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
a serpent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 serpent | det |
| 2 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
an eagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
a great golden eagle with outstretched wings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 eagle | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eagle | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eagle | amod |
| 4 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wings | case |
| 6 | outstretched | outstretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wings | amod |
| 7 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eagle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a giant winged creature with the head of a lion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 creature | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creature | amod |
| 3 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 creature | amod |
| 4 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 creature | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lion | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lion | det |
| 10 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wing | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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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