Exam question 4 · Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wake…
Which substance formed the lake that replaced the royal palace?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: substance, lake · What happens: form, replace · To what, where: lake, royal palace
This is exam question 4 of lesson 692 «Fairy Book, The Prince and Death, part 32: the prince wakes the dead and Death loses his prize, then a stone-cutter wishes for more» 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 substance | det |
| 2 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 formed | nsubj |
| 3 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 formed | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 replaced | nsubj |
| 7 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lake | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 9 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 palace | amod |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replaced | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 formed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | which substance | the lake | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | replace | past | the lake | the royal palace | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Co-Theme |
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
Boiling yellow sulphur mixed with black rock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Boiling | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sulphur | amod |
| 2 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sulphur | amod |
| 3 | sulphur | sulphur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sulphur | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rock | amod |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mixed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | gerund | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | mix | participle | Boiling yellow sulphur not said here | with black rock | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with rock=Co-Patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Hot steaming sulphur from deep beneath the palace
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sulphur | amod |
| 2 | steaming | steaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sulphur | compound |
| 3 | sulphur | sulphur | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 deep | case |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sulphur | amod |
| 6 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deep | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Silver
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sulphur
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sulphur | sulphur | NOUN | 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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