Exam question 3 · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…
What did the Prince demand that the old dame restore to Celandine?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old dame · What happens: do, restore · To what, where: Prince demand, Celandine
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 demand | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 demand | compound |
| 5 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 restore | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dame | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dame | amod |
| 9 | dame | dame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 restore | nsubj |
| 10 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 demand | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Celandine | case |
| 12 | Celandine | Celandine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 restore | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Prince demand | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demand=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | restore | infinitive | the old dame | the Prince demand not said here | Celandine | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent demand=Theme to celandine=Recipient |
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
Her own attire
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 attire | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 attire | amod |
| 3 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Her dress
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 | 2 dress | nmod:poss |
| 2 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
All of her own silk attire and her jewelled shoes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 attire | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 attire | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 attire | amod |
| 5 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attire | compound |
| 6 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 All | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shoes | cc |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | jewelled | jewell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 shoes | amod |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attire | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jewell | participle | tree rules |
Option 4
Her coat
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 | 2 coat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | coat | coat | 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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