Exam question 3 · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart…

What was the principal provision recovered by the spaniels from the stranded horse?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: principal provision · What happens: be, recover, strand · To what, where: principal provision

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1893 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Mannikin: he wins Sabella's heart from the Ice 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 provision	det
4	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 provision	amod
5	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 provision	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 spaniels	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 spaniels	det
9	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 recovered	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 horse	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 horse	det
12	stranded	strand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 horse	amod
13	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spaniels	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the principal provision			tree rules
2	recover	participle		the principal provision not said here	by the spaniels from the stranded horse	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	strand	participle				tree rules

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

Dried fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 fish	amod
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Figs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Biscuits

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Cheese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheese	cheese	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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