Exam question 4 · Lang's Fairy Book, Prince Vivien, part 55: Vivien slays th…
On what animal was Placida carried to the farm of the King and Queen?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Placida · What happens: be
This is exam question 4 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 animal | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 animal | nsubj |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | cop |
| 5 | Placida | Placida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | nsubj |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 farm | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 farm | det |
| 9 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 King | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 farm | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Queen | cc |
| 14 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 King | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 carried | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Placida | on animal; to the farm of the King and Queen; carry property | 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
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.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a unicorn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 unicorn | det |
| 2 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
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 4 · ← Mova's choice
the enormous snail that carried the Prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snail | det |
| 2 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 snail | amod |
| 3 | snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 snail | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the enormous snail | the Prince | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
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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