Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic…
Which of the following states the object John found missing upon waking?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: object · What happens: follow, state, find, wake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1901 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 38: John eats magic plums, sells them, and unmasks the horned Princess» 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 | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 states | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 states | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 states | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 states | nsubj |
| 5 | states | state | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 object | det |
| 7 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | nsubj |
| 8 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 object | appos |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 states | ccomp |
| 10 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 found | xcomp |
| 11 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 12 waking | mark |
| 12 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 found | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 states | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | state speech: other | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | find | past | the object | missing property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wake | gerund | the object not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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 right answer
his purse, cloak and the Princess
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 purse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cloak | punct |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purse | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Princess | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purse | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
his purse, cloak, shoes and the Princess too
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 purse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cloak | punct |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purse | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 shoes | punct |
| 6 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 purse | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Princess | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 purse | conj |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 purse | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
his cloak, boots and the Princess
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 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 boots | punct |
| 4 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cloak | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Princess | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloak | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
his purse, cloak, horse and the Princess
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 purse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cloak | punct |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purse | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 horse | punct |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purse | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Princess | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Princess | det |
| 9 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purse | conj |
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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