Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Flower Queen's Daughter, part 45:…
What reward did the Mother Dragon bestow upon the Prince at the conclusion of his service?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mother Dragon, Dragon · What happens: be, do, bestow, conclude, service · To what, where: conclusion, service
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | reward | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Dragon | det |
| 5 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Dragon | compound |
| 6 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bestow | nsubj |
| 7 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 Prince | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bestow | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 conclusion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 conclusion | det |
| 13 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bestow | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 service | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 service | nmod:poss |
| 16 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 conclusion | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bestow | present | the Mother Dragon | the conclusion of Dragon's service | upon the Prince | tree rules | |||
| 4 | conclude | Dragon's service | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | service | Dragon | nom service «act transitive»: 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
A magnificent cloak made entirely of pure gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cloak | det |
| 2 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cloak | amod |
| 3 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cloak | acl |
| 5 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 7 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gold | amod |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a magnificent cloak not said here | of pure gold; entirely property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 2
A cloak made of gold and silver thread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cloak | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thread | cc |
| 7 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thread | compound |
| 8 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a cloak not said here | of gold and silver thread | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 3
A coat made of silk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 coat | det |
| 2 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 coat | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 silk | case |
| 5 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a coat not said here | of silk | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A cloak made of gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloak | det |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cloak | acl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | a cloak not said here | of gold | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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