Exam question 1 · d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, part 2: Fiordelisa is…
Which person did the Queen wish to see married first, according to the passage?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: person · What happens: do, see, marry, accord · To what, where: Queen wish
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1865 «d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Fiordelisa, part 2: Fiordelisa is hidden away in a tower while the Prince visits» 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 | 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 wish | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wish | compound |
| 6 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 wish | acl |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wish | acl |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 married | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 passage | punct |
| 12 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 passage | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 according | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 passage | det |
| 15 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which person | the Queen wish | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | which person not said here | the Queen wish not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | marry | participle | the Queen wish not said here | accord the passage; first property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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
her eldest daughter, Fiordelisa
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fiordelisa | punct |
| 5 | Fiordelisa | Fiordelisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
her own daughter, Turritella
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Turritella | punct |
| 5 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Turritella
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
her own daughter, Turritella, the elder of the two
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 daughter | amod |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Turritella | punct |
| 5 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 daughter | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 elder | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elder | det |
| 8 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Turritella | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 two | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 two | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 elder | 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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