Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the pr…
To whom did the youngest princess first award the gold necklace?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: youngest princess
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1846 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Youngest Princess, part 30: the prince turns handsome, tricks his brothers-in-law and is refused at the gate» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 2 whom | case |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 princess | amod |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 did | advmod |
| 8 | award | award | ADP | _ | 11 necklace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 necklace | det |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 necklace | compound |
| 11 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the youngest princess | award the gold necklace; first property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
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 palace gardener's boy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gardener | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gardener | compound |
| 3 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 boy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 gardener | case |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the village trader's servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trader | det |
| 2 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trader | compound |
| 3 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 servant | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 trader | case |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the poor boy who was a grain merchant's servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 boy | amod |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 servant | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 servant | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 merchant | det |
| 7 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 merchant | compound |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 servant | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 merchant | case |
| 10 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boy | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the poor boy | a grain merchant's servant | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the grain merchant's servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 2 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 merchant | compound |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 servant | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 merchant | case |
| 5 | servant | servant | 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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