Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45:…
Which animal monarch was summoned by the Prince's second ringing of the little bell?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second ringing, Prince · What happens: summon, ring · To what, where: animal monarch, little bell
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1721 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45: the Prince serves the Mother Dragon and calls three animal kings» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 monarch | compound |
| 3 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 summoned | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 summoned | aux:pass |
| 5 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 ringing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ringing | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Prince | case |
| 10 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 ringing | amod |
| 11 | ringing | ringing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 summoned | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bell | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bell | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bell | amod |
| 15 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ringing | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 summoned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · passive | the Prince's second ringing of the little bell | animal monarch | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ring | the Prince | the little bell | nom ringing «event transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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
The King of the Fishes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Fishes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fishes | det |
| 5 | Fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The King of the Foxes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Foxes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Foxes | det |
| 5 | Foxes | Fox | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 King | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Foxes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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/1721-pg640-part45/e1/