Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daug…
Which quality of the Prince is most evident in his resolve to marry the shepherdess?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quality · What happens: be, marry · To what, where: resolve, shepherdess
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1903 «Fairy Tales, The Dirty Shepherdess: a King's youngest daughter hides in rags, works as a shepherdess, and wins a Prince with a lost ring.» 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 quality | det |
| 2 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 evident | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Prince | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 quality | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 evident | cop |
| 7 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 evident | amod |
| 8 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 resolve | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 resolve | nmod:poss |
| 11 | resolve | resolve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 evident | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 marry | mark |
| 13 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 resolve | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shepherdess | det |
| 15 | shepherdess | shepherdess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marry | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 evident | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which quality of the Prince | his resolve | evident property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | which quality of the Prince not said here | the shepherdess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherdess=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 · ← Mova's choice
fierce pride in his rank
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pride | amod |
| 2 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 rank | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 rank | nmod:poss |
| 5 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pride | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
quick wit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wit | amod |
| 2 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
great courage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 courage | amod |
| 2 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
constancy of his affection
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | constancy | constancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 affection | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 affection | nmod:poss |
| 4 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 constancy | 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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