Exam question 4 · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead, part 22: Celandine ge…

Describe the conveyance in which the lovers were transported to the Leafy Palace.

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: describe, transport · To what, where: conveyance, lovers, Leafy Palace

This is exam question 4 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	Describe	describe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 conveyance	det
3	conveyance	conveyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Describe	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 which	case
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 transported	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lovers	det
7	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 transported	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 transported	aux:pass
9	transported	transport	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 conveyance	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 Palace	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Palace	det
12	Leafy	Leafy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Palace	compound
13	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 transported	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Describe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	imperative	you not said here	the conveyance					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent conveyance=Theme
2	transport	past · passive		the lovers	the Leafy Palace	the conveyance			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to palace=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

Two carts with wheels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 carts	nummod
2	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 wheels	case
4	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carts	nmod

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

Option 2

Two chariots wreathed with flowers and drawn by white swans across the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 chariots	nummod
2	chariots	chariot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	wreathed	wreathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chariots	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wreathed	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drawn	cc
7	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wreathed	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 swans	case
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 swans	amod
10	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 drawn	obl
11	across	across	ADP	_	13 lake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drawn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreathe	participle		Two chariots not said here				with flowers	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme
2	draw	participle				the lake		by white swans	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Two chariots wreathed with flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 chariots	nummod
2	chariots	chariot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	wreathed	wreathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 chariots	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 flowers	case
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wreathed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreathe	participle		Two chariots not said here				with flowers	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Two carriages decked with bows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 carriages	nummod
2	carriages	carriage	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	decked	deck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 carriages	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 bows	case
5	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 decked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deck	participle		Two carriages not said here				with bows	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with bow=Theme

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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