Exam question 1 · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince…
Which object did the Prince employ in order to liberate the crew from the arboreal enchantment?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: do, liberate · To what, where: Prince employ, crew, arboreal enchantment
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1888 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin, part 25: the tiny Prince signs up for the Ice Mountain quest, is wrecked, and frees a crew of enchanted sailors» 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 object | det |
| 2 | object | object | 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 employ | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 employ | compound |
| 6 | employ | employ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 liberate | mark |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 in | fixed |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 liberate | mark |
| 10 | liberate | liberate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 employ | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crew | det |
| 12 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 liberate | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 enchantment | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 enchantment | det |
| 15 | arboreal | arboreal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 enchantment | amod |
| 16 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 liberate | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which object | the Prince employ | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employ=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | liberate | to-infinitive | which object not said here | the crew | the arboreal enchantment | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent crew=Theme from enchantment=Source |
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
The heavy point of his hunting axe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 point | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 point | amod |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 axe | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 axe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 axe | compound |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 point | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | his hunting axe | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The silver tip of his spear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tip | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tip | amod |
| 3 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 spear | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tip | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
His sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sword | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The sharp point of one of his arrows
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 point | det |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 point | amod |
| 3 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 point | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 arrows | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 one | 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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