Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor fre…
What was the name of the tale that commences following the conclusion of this part?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tale · What happens: be, commence, follow, conclude · To what, where: name, conclusion, part
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1927 «Fairy Tales, The Three Snake-Leaves, part 64: a tailor frees his bride's castle, then a young king is trapped in a royal vault» 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 | 4 name | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tale | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tale | det |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 name | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 commences | nsubj |
| 9 | commences | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tale | acl:relcl |
| 10 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 commences | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 conclusion | det |
| 12 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 following | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 part | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 part | det |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conclusion | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the name | of the tale | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | commence | present | the tale | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | the tale not said here | the conclusion of this part | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conclusion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | conclude | this part | nom conclusion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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
The Three Snake-Leaves.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Leaves | det |
| 2 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Snake | compound |
| 3 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Leaves | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Snake | punct |
| 5 | Leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Leaves | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Twelve Brothers.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Brothers | det |
| 2 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Brothers | nummod |
| 3 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Brothers | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Frog King.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 2 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | compound |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 King | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The Golden 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 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Bird | amod |
| 3 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Bird | punct |
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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