Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales, The Wizard King, part 1: a King turns into an…
Specify the object the Queen bestowed upon the Prince to assist him in his quest.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Queen, his · What happens: specify, bestow, assist, quest · To what, where: object, him, quest
This is exam question 3 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 object | det |
| 3 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bestowed | nsubj |
| 6 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Specify | parataxis |
| 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 bestowed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 assist | mark |
| 11 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bestowed | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 assist | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 quest | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 quest | nmod:poss |
| 15 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assist | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the object | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bestow | past | the Queen | upon the Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | assist | to-infinitive | the Queen not said here | him = he | his quest | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | quest | his = he | nom quest «cognition 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 ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ring | det |
| 2 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a letter sealed with wax
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 letter | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | sealed | seal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 letter | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 wax | case |
| 5 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sealed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seal | participle | a letter not said here | with wax | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a miniature of her daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 miniature | det |
| 2 | miniature | miniature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 daughter | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 miniature | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a map
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 map | det |
| 2 | map | map | 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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