Test 11 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken…
Who was fanning the queen with a feather fan?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: fan · To what, where: queen
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 717 «Hauff's Tales, The False Prince, part 57: Labakan is taken for the prince, but the queen doubts him» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 fanning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fanning | aux |
| 3 | fanning | fan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 queen | det |
| 5 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fanning | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 fan | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fan | det |
| 8 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fan | compound |
| 9 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fanning | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 fanning | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fan | past · progressive | the queen | with a feather fan | tree rules |
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
One of the young ladies of the royal household who stood beside her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ladies | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ladies | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ladies | amod |
| 5 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 household | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 household | det |
| 8 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 household | amod |
| 9 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ladies | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 household | acl:relcl |
| 12 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stood | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the royal household | beside her = she | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Sheik of Medina
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sheik | det |
| 2 | Sheik | Sheik | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Medina | case |
| 4 | Medina | Medina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sheik | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Sheik of Cairo
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sheik | det |
| 2 | Sheik | Sheik | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Cairo | case |
| 4 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sheik | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
A servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | 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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