Exam question 2 · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays th…

What was the nature of the creature which conveyed the Prince to the Green Castle?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nature, creature · What happens: be, convey · To what, where: Prince, Green Castle

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1918 «Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays the lion and Giant, then rides a snail to the Green Castle» 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	4 nature	det
4	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 creature	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creature	det
7	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nature	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 conveyed	nsubj
9	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 creature	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Prince	det
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 conveyed	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 Castle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Castle	det
14	Green	Green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Castle	amod
15	Castle	Castle	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 conveyed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the nature of the creature						tree rules
2	convey	past	the creature	the Prince	the Green Castle				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Topic to castle=Recipient

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

a cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cart	det
2	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a snail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snail	det
2	snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a pony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pony	det
2	pony	pony	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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