Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince…
Which musical instrument does the lute player carry into the court?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: musical instrument · What happens: do, carry · To what, where: lute player, court
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1762 «Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince, part 13: the queen wins back her king, then a lost king makes a bargain with a stranger» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 does | obj |
| 2 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 instrument | amod |
| 3 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 carry | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 player | det |
| 6 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 player | compound |
| 7 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 court | det |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 carry | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | musical instrument | the lute player | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | the court | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a lute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lute | det |
| 2 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a wooden recorder from home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 recorder | det |
| 2 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 recorder | amod |
| 3 | recorder | recorder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recorder | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a golden trumpet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 trumpet | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 trumpet | amod |
| 3 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a viol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 viol | det |
| 2 | viol | viol | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1762-pg641-part13/e1/