Exam question 2 · English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid'…
What spell did the laundry-maid pronounce upon the master and the male servants?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: laundry maid · What happens: be, do, pronounce
This is exam question 2 of lesson 241 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Feathers: the laundry-maid's spell sends the men into the pond until her bird-husband comes to take her away» 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 | 3 did | obj |
| 2 | spell | spell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maid | det |
| 5 | laundry | laundry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 maid | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 laundry | punct |
| 7 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pronounce | nsubj |
| 8 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 master | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 master | det |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pronounce | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 servants | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 servants | det |
| 14 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 servants | amod |
| 15 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 master | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | pronounce | present | the laundry maid | upon the master and the male servants | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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
"By virtue of my two feathers"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 virtue | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 virtue | case |
| 3 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 feathers | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 feathers | nummod |
| 7 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 virtue | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 virtue | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
"By the power of my three feathers"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 power | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 power | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 power | det |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 feathers | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 feathers | nummod |
| 8 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 power | nmod |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 power | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
"Three feathers"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feathers | punct |
| 2 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 feathers | nummod |
| 3 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feathers | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
"By virtue of my three feathers"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 virtue | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 virtue | case |
| 3 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 feathers | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 feathers | nummod |
| 7 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 virtue | nmod |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 virtue | 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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