Exam question 1 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es…
In accordance with the narrative, what did the queen instruct her husband to collect from the pool?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: queen · What happens: instruct, collect · To what, where: husband, accordance, pool
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 accordance | case |
| 2 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instruct | obl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 narrative | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 narrative | det |
| 5 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 accordance | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 instruct | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 instruct | obj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 instruct | aux |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instruct | nsubj |
| 11 | instruct | instruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 instruct | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 collect | mark |
| 15 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 instruct | advcl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 pool | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 pool | det |
| 18 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 collect | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 instruct | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | instruct speech: other | past · do-support | the queen | queen's husband | accordance with the narrative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | collect | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | the pool | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from pool=Source |
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 drop of water in a bottle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 drop | det |
| 2 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 water | case |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bottle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bottle | det |
| 7 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A leaf from the old tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 leaf | det |
| 2 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaf | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A cup of wine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cup | det |
| 2 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 wine | case |
| 4 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cup | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A stone from the pool bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 stone | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 bed | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bed | det |
| 5 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bed | compound |
| 6 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stone | 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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