Exam question 4 · Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is…
Which newspaper reported the wedding of the Princess?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: newspaper · What happens: report, wed · To what, where: wedding, Princess
This is exam question 4 of lesson 639 «Nine Unlikely Tales, The Dragon of Rotundia: the dragon is wound up on the pillar, the island spins, and everyone changes size» 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 newspaper | det |
| 2 | newspaper | newspaper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reported | nsubj |
| 3 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wedding | det |
| 5 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reported | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Princess | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wedding | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reported | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past | which newspaper | the wedding of the Princess | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wed | the Princess | nom wedding «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 right answer
the Rotundia Times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Times | det |
| 2 | Rotundia | Rotundia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Times | compound |
| 3 | Times | Times | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Times
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Times | det |
| 2 | Times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the Royal Gazette
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Gazette | det |
| 2 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Gazette | amod |
| 3 | Gazette | Gazette | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the Daily Herald
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Herald | det |
| 2 | Daily | Daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Herald | compound |
| 3 | Herald | Herald | 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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