Exam question 2 · Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a…

In which location did the Fairy first encounter the unhappy maiden, and what task was assigned to her there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, encounter, assign · To what, where: Fairy, location, unhappy maiden

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1910 «Pink Fairy Book, Prince Ficklé and Fair Helena, part 1: a kind Fairy helps Helena sort the feathers and empty the pond, and her cruel stepmother plans something worse» 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 location	case
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 encounter	advmod
8	encounter	encounter	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 Fairy	appos
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 maiden	det
10	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 maiden	amod
11	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 encounter	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 assigned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 assigned	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 assigned	nsubj:pass
15	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 assigned	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 assigned	aux:pass
17	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 assigned	obl
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 assigned	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Fairy		which location		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Eventuality
2	encounter	infinitive	the unhappy maiden			first property	vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus
3	assign	past · passive		Fairy	there		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to she=Goal

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

In the stepmother's house, where she was set to sort twelve pounds of feathers

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	5 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stepmother	det
3	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 stepmother	case
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 set	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 set	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 set	aux:pass
10	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sort	mark
12	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 set	xcomp
13	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pounds	nummod
14	pounds	pound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sort	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 feathers	case
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 pounds	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · passive		stepmother		the stepmother's house			tree rules
2	sort	to-infinitive		twelve pounds of feathers					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

In the palace kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 kitchen	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kitchen	det
3	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kitchen	compound
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

At the old mill by the river, where she had to scrub the floors of a grand house

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	4 mill	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mill	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mill	amod
4	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mill	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 had	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 river	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 scrub	mark
13	scrub	scrub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 floors	det
15	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 scrub	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 house	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 house	det
18	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 house	amod
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 floors	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she						tree rules
2	scrub	to-infinitive	she not said here	the floors of a grand house					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent floor=Source

Option 4

At the edge of the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	3 edge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 edge	det
3	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 edge	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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