Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf:…
Which person was the maiden revealed to be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person · What happens: be, reveal · To what, where: maiden
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1765 «Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf: the prince tricks the old master and he and the maiden escape» 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 revealed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 maiden | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 person | conj |
| 6 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 be | mark |
| 8 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 revealed | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 revealed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | which person and the maiden not said here | the maiden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reveal | past | which person and the maiden | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | to-infinitive | which person and the maiden not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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
the lost daughter of a faraway northern king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daughter | det |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 6 | faraway | faraway | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 7 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
the king's own niece
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 niece | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 niece | amod |
| 5 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the daughter of a poor woodcutter from the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 daughter | det |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 woodcutter | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woodcutter | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woodcutter | amod |
| 6 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 daughter | nmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hills | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 woodcutter | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a king's daughter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | 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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