Exam question 1 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' ques…
With reference to the passage, identify the creature which conveyed the Princess to the Green Castle.
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, creature · What happens: identify, convey · To what, where: creature, Princess, Green Castle
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 reference | case |
| 2 | reference | reference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 identify | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 passage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 passage | det |
| 5 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reference | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 reference | punct |
| 7 | identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 creature | det |
| 9 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 identify | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 conveyed | nsubj |
| 11 | conveyed | convey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 creature | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conveyed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Castle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Castle | det |
| 16 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Castle | amod |
| 17 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 conveyed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the creature | with reference to the passage | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | |||
| 2 | convey | past | the creature | the Princess | the Green Castle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=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
the Grey Falcon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Falcon | det |
| 2 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Falcon | amod |
| 3 | Falcon | falcon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
an eagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the great Black Bird of the northern hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bird | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Bird | amod |
| 3 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Bird | compound |
| 4 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hills | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hills | det |
| 7 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hills | amod |
| 8 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Bird | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the Black Bird
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bird | det |
| 2 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bird | amod |
| 3 | Bird | bird | 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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