Exam question 1 · pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is ki…
Identify the substance which the crow conveyed in her beak from the three wells to the deceased prince.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, convey, decease · To what, where: substance, deceased prince, beak
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1757 «pg641, the prince and his beasts, part 8: the prince is killed and a crow brings him back to life» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 substance | det |
| 3 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 conveyed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crow | det |
| 6 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conveyed | nsubj |
| 7 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 substance | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 beak | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beak | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conveyed | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 wells | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wells | det |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 wells | nummod |
| 14 | wells | well | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 conveyed | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 prince | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 17 | deceased | decease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 prince | amod |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 conveyed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the substance | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent substance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | convey | participle · passive | the substance | the deceased prince | crow's beak | from the three wells | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from well=Initial_Location to prince=Destination | ||
| 3 | decease | participle | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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
wine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
water from the three wells
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 wells | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wells | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wells | nummod |
| 5 | wells | well | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 water | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
milk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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