Exam question 2 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…
With what emotion does the Swallow initially respond to the statue's request?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statue · What happens: do, swallow, respond, request
This is exam question 2 of lesson 2031 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1: the Swallow meets the weeping statue and agrees to help» 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 | _ | 3 emotion | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 emotion | det |
| 3 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obl |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Swallow | det |
| 6 | Swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 does | xcomp |
| 7 | initially | initially | ADV | _ | 6 Swallow | advmod |
| 8 | respond | respond | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 Swallow | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 request | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 statue | det |
| 11 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 request | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 statue | case |
| 13 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 respond | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | with what emotion | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | swallow | infinitive | initially property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | respond speech: other | infinitive | to the statue's request | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to request=Theme | |||||
| 4 | request | the statue | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Joy and delight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 delight | cc |
| 3 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Joy | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Reluctance, expressed through his dislike of boys
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 expressed | punct |
| 3 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Reluctance | acl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 dislike | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dislike | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dislike | dislike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expressed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 boys | case |
| 8 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dislike | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | participle | Reluctance not said here | his dislike of boys | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dislike | his = he | boys | nom dislike «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
Option 3
Anger at the statue
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 statue | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 statue | det |
| 4 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Anger | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Delight, expressed through his love of the sun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expressed | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Delight | punct |
| 3 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 love | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 love | nmod:poss |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 expressed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 love | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | participle | his love of the sun | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | love | his = he | the sun | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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