Exam question 1 · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…
In what manner did the queen return to her chamber after the fish's reply?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fish · What happens: do, reply · To what, where: queen return, manner
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1849 «Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the queen's fish laughs and the vizier's son sets off» 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 | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 return | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 return | compound |
| 7 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 chamber | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 reply | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fish | det |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reply | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 fish | case |
| 15 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the queen return | what manner | after the fish's reply | to her chamber | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent return=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | reply | the fish | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=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
In a state of great rage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 state | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 state | det |
| 3 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 rage | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rage | amod |
| 6 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 state | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Angrily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In a quiet and sad mood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 mood | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mood | det |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mood | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sad | cc |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quiet | conj |
| 6 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Happily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Happily | happily | ADV | _ | 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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