Exam question 4 · Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her p…
What did the three sisters have in common, according to the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: three sisters · What happens: do, have, accord
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1707 «Violet Fairy Book, Prince Rainbow: the Princess wins her prince and becomes queen» 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 | 5 sisters | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sisters | nummod |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 common | case |
| 8 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 have | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 narrative | punct |
| 10 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 narrative | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 according | fixed |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 narrative | det |
| 13 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 common | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | the three sisters | common property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 · ← Mova's choice
They were twins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 twins | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 twins | cop |
| 3 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | They | twins | tree rules |
Option 2
They were alike in mind and dress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 alike | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 alike | cop |
| 3 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mind | case |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 alike | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dress | cc |
| 7 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mind | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | mind and dress | alike property | tree rules |
Option 3
All alike
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 All | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
They were alike in mind and person
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 alike | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 alike | cop |
| 3 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 mind | case |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 alike | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 person | cc |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mind | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | They | mind and person | alike property | tree rules |
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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