Exam question 3 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Happy Prince, part 1…

What is the cause of the drops of water falling upon the Swallow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cause, water · What happens: be, fall, cause · To what, where: Swallow, drops

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 drops	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 drops	det
7	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drops	nmod
10	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 water	acl
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 Swallow	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Swallow	det
13	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 falling	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the cause of the drops of water			tree rules
2	fall	gerund	water not said here		the Swallow	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon swallow=Location
3	cause			the drops of water		nom cause «event 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 · ← Mova's choice

The tears that the statue of the Happy Prince was shedding for the poor people of the town

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tears	det
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shedding	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 shedding	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statue	det
5	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shedding	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Prince	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
8	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Prince	amod
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 statue	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shedding	aux
11	shedding	shed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 people	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 people	amod
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shedding	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 town	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 town	det
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 people	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shed	past · progressive	the tears	that				for the poor people of the town	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Source

Option 2

The splashes from the fountain below

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 splashes	det
2	splashes	splash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 fountain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fountain	det
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splashes	nmod
6	below	below	ADV	_	5 fountain	advmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The tears of the statue of the Happy Prince

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tears	det
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 statue	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statue	det
5	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tears	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 Prince	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
8	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Prince	amod
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 statue	nmod

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

Option 4

The tears of the golden statue of the Happy Prince weeping over the city

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tears	det
2	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 statue	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 statue	det
5	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 statue	amod
6	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tears	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 weeping	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 weeping	det
9	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weeping	amod
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 weeping	compound
11	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 statue	nmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 city	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 city	det
14	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weeping	nmod

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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