Exam question 1 · Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: M…
Which person did the eldest Fairy's Book of Magic reveal as the thief of the Princess's heart?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: person, eldest Book · What happens: do, reveal
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1891 «Madame d'Aulnoy's Fairy Tales, Prince Mannikin, part 28: Mannikin wins the joust and the Ambassador's insolent letter arrives» 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 | 8 Book | det |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 Book | amod |
| 6 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Book | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Fairy | case |
| 8 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reveal | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Magic | case |
| 10 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Book | nmod |
| 11 | reveal | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 thief | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thief | det |
| 14 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reveal | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princess | det |
| 17 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Princess | case |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thief | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which person | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reveal | present | Fairy's eldest Book of Magic | as the thief of the Princess's heart | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as thief=Attribute |
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
Gorgonzola
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gorgonzola | Gorgonzola | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the young Prince Fadasse of the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fadasse | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Fadasse | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Fadasse | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Fadasse | Fadasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 north | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 north | det |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Fadasse | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Brandatimor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brandatimor | Brandatimor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the Ambassador's squire Brandatimor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ambassador | det |
| 2 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 squire | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Ambassador | case |
| 4 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | Brandatimor | Brandatimor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 squire | appos |
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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