Exam question 2 · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…

In formal terms, through which agency was the white cow dispatched to Celandine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: agency, white cow · What happens: be, dispatch · To what, where: Celandine, formal terms

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1885 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine gets a white cow, then the Prince finds her and they ride off to the Leafy Palace» 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 terms	case
2	formal	formal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 terms	amod
3	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dispatched	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cow	punct
5	through	through	ADP	_	11 cow	case
6	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	7 agency	det
7	agency	agency	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cow	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cow	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cow	det
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cow	amod
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dispatched	nsubj
12	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 Celandine	case
14	Celandine	Celandine	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dispatched	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 dispatched	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	which agency					through the white cow	tree rules
2	dispatch	past	the white cow		Celandine	formal terms			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to celandine=Destination

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 Fairy of the Beech-Woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 Woods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woods	det
5	Beech	Beech	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Woods	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Beech	punct
7	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Fairy	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The Fairy of the Beech-Woods, acting through her messenger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fairy	det
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 Woods	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Woods	det
5	Beech	Beech	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Woods	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Beech	punct
7	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Fairy	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 acting	punct
9	acting	act	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Fairy	acl
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 messenger	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 messenger	nmod:poss
12	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 acting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	gerund	the Fairy of the Beech Woods not said here			Fairy's messenger			vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The Elf of the Oak-Glades

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Elf	det
2	Elf	Elf	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 Glades	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Glades	det
5	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Glades	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Oak	punct
7	Glades	Glade	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Elf	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The Pixie of the Willow-Marsh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Pixie	det
2	Pixie	Pixie	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 Marsh	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Marsh	det
5	Willow	Willow	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Marsh	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Willow	punct
7	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pixie	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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