Exam question 1 · Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved,…
To which emperor did Charney address his written petition concerning the preservation of the plant?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Charney, written petition · What happens: address, write, concern, petition, preserve · To what, where: written petition, preservation, plant
This is exam question 1 of lesson 361 «Famous Tales, Picciola, part 21: Charney's plant is saved, and Mignon dances» 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 emperor | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 emperor | det |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 address | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 address | aux |
| 5 | Charney | Charney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 address | nsubj |
| 6 | address | address | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 petition | nmod:poss |
| 8 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 petition | amod |
| 9 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 address | obj |
| 10 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 petition | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 preservation | det |
| 12 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 concerning | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 plant | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plant | det |
| 15 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 preservation | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 address | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past · do-support | Charney | Charney's written petition | to which emperor | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petition=Destination | |||
| 2 | write | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | Charney's written petition not said here | the preservation of the plant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus preservation=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | petition | Charney | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | preserve | the plant | nom preservation «act 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 right answer
Napoleon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The emperor of Austria and the king of Prussia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Austria | case |
| 4 | Austria | Austria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 emperor | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 king | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 emperor | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Prussia | case |
| 9 | Prussia | Prussia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Frederick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Napoleon the first emperor of the French
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 emperor | amod |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Napoleon | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 French | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 French | det |
| 7 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 emperor | 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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