Exam question 3 · The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Devoted Friend: Hans…
Which bird related the tale of Hans to the Water-rat?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: bird, Hans · What happens: relate, tell · To what, where: tale, Water rat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 3 of lesson 2038 «The Happy Prince and Other Tales, The Devoted Friend: Hans drowns in the storm, and the Miller only frets about his wheelbarrow» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | nsubj |
| 3 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Hans | case |
| 7 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 tale | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 rat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rat | det |
| 10 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rat | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Water | punct |
| 12 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 related | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | which bird | the tale of Hans | the Water rat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Topic to rat=Recipient | |||
| 2 | tell | Hans | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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
the Nightingale who sings at dusk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Nightingale | det |
| 2 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sings | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 sings | nsubj |
| 4 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 dusk | case |
| 6 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sings | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | the Nightingale | dusk | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the Linnet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Linnet | det |
| 2 | Linnet | linnet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the old grey Heron of the reeds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Heron | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Heron | amod |
| 3 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Heron | amod |
| 4 | Heron | Heron | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 reeds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reeds | det |
| 7 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Heron | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the Thrush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Thrush | det |
| 2 | Thrush | Thrush | PROPN | 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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