Exam question 4 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Prince…
Which vessel did the Princess permit the third son to employ in preparing the fowl?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vessel · What happens: do, employ, prepare · To what, where: Princess permit, fowl
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1748 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Blockhead-Hans: he wins the Princess with a crow, a shoe and mud» 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 vessel | det |
| 2 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 permit | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 permit | compound |
| 6 | permit | permit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 employ | mark |
| 11 | employ | employ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 son | acl |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 preparing | mark |
| 13 | preparing | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 employ | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fowl | det |
| 15 | fowl | fowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 preparing | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which vessel | the Princess permit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | employ | to-infinitive | which vessel not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | prepare | gerund | which vessel not said here | the fowl | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=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 big iron pot from the palace kitchen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pot | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pot | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pot | compound |
| 4 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 kitchen | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kitchen | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kitchen | compound |
| 8 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pot | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a copper bowl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bowl | det |
| 2 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bowl | compound |
| 3 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the wooden shoe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shoe | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shoe | amod |
| 3 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the old wooden shoe that had been thrown into the ditch
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shoe | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shoe | amod |
| 3 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shoe | amod |
| 4 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrown | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 thrown | aux:pass |
| 8 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 shoe | acl:relcl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 ditch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ditch | det |
| 11 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thrown | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · perfect · passive | the old wooden shoe | into the ditch result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into ditch=Result |
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/1748-pg640-part72/e4/