Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and…
exam: With reference to the text, identify the object that the crab employed to deprive the Prince of his tongue.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, crab · What happens: identify, employ, deprive · To what, where: exam, Prince
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1726 «Fairy Book, The Witch, part 1: the Sun-Hero is doomed, and twins flee a witch's hut» 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 | exam | exam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 identify | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 reference | punct |
| 3 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 reference | case |
| 4 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 exam | appos |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 text | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 text | det |
| 7 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reference | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 exam | punct |
| 9 | identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 object | det |
| 11 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 identify | obj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 employed | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 crab | det |
| 14 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 employed | nsubj |
| 15 | employed | employ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 identify | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 deprive | mark |
| 17 | deprive | deprive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 employed | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 deprive | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tongue | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 22 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Prince | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | exam | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent object=Theme | ||||
| 2 | employ | past | the crab | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | deprive | to-infinitive | the crab not said here | the Prince of crab's tongue | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Source |
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 crab's sharp claws and pincers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crab | det |
| 2 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 claws | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 crab | case |
| 4 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 claws | amod |
| 5 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pincers | cc |
| 7 | pincers | pincer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 claws | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The sharp claws of the great sea crab
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 claws | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 claws | amod |
| 3 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 crab | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crab | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crab | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crab | compound |
| 8 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 claws | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Its sharp pincers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pincers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pincers | amod |
| 3 | pincers | pincer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The crab's claws
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crab | det |
| 2 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 claws | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 crab | case |
| 4 | claws | claw | 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.
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