Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self…
Upon what condition did the Swineherd consent to relinquish the pot?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition · What happens: do, relinquish · To what, where: Swineherd consent, pot
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1734 «Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the Prince shows his true self and the Princess is sent away to sing outside» 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 consent | det |
| 6 | Swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consent | compound |
| 7 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 relinquish | mark |
| 9 | relinquish | relinquish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 consent | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pot | det |
| 11 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 relinquish | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | condition | the Swineherd consent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | relinquish | to-infinitive | condition not said here | the pot | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
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
twenty kisses from the Princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kisses | nummod |
| 2 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kisses | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
ten kisses from the Princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kisses | nummod |
| 2 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kisses | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
ten kisses from the Princess and her household
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kisses | nummod |
| 2 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kisses | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 household | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 household | nmod:poss |
| 8 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Princess | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
ten kisses from the Empress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kisses | nummod |
| 2 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Empress | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Empress | det |
| 5 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kisses | nmod |
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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