Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…
Which agent was responsible for the crushing of the mustard seed oil?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: agent · What happens: be, crush · To what, where: seed oil
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1820 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins her with ants, tigers, a flying bed and a hair» 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 agent | det |
| 2 | agent | agent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 responsible | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 responsible | cop |
| 4 | responsible | responsible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 crushing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crushing | det |
| 7 | crushing | crushing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 responsible | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 oil | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oil | det |
| 10 | mustard | mustard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seed | compound |
| 11 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oil | compound |
| 12 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crushing | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 responsible | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | which agent | for the crushing of the seed oil; responsible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crush | the seed oil | nom crushing «act transitive»: of=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 right answer
the ants of the Ant-Raja
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ants | det |
| 2 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Raja | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Raja | det |
| 5 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Raja | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Ant | punct |
| 7 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ants | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the king's cook
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 | 4 cook | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the Ant-Raja's bees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Raja | det |
| 2 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Raja | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ant | punct |
| 4 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bees | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Raja | case |
| 6 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the tigers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tigers | det |
| 2 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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