Exam question 1 · fairy book, Prince Milan and Hyacinthia, part 46: Milan wi…
In the passage, what physical mark identifies Princess Hyacinthia to Prince Milan?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: physical mark · What happens: identify · To what, where: Princess, Prince Milan, passage
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1909 «fairy book, Prince Milan and Hyacinthia, part 46: Milan wins a second test and the pair flee the Magician» 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 passage | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 passage | det |
| 3 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 identifies | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 identifies | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 identifies | obj |
| 6 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mark | amod |
| 7 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 identifies | nsubj |
| 8 | identifies | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 identifies | obj |
| 10 | Hyacinthia | Hyacinthia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Princess | flat |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Milan | case |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Milan | compound |
| 13 | Milan | Milan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 identifies | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 identifies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | present | physical mark | Princess | Prince Milan | the passage | 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 · ✓ the right answer
A small fly upon her left cheek
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fly | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fly | amod |
| 3 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 cheek | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 6 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cheek | amod |
| 7 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A small fly upon her left cheek and a ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fly | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fly | amod |
| 3 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 cheek | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 6 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cheek | amod |
| 7 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ring | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A small fly upon her left cheek, near her ear, as he saw
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fly | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fly | amod |
| 3 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 cheek | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 6 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cheek | amod |
| 7 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ear | punct |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 ear | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ear | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fly | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 saw | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | he | a small fly upon her left cheek and her ear not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A small mark on her right cheek
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mark | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mark | amod |
| 3 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 cheek | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 6 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cheek | amod |
| 7 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mark | 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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