Exam question 3 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trad…
From which wind did Lily learn of the prince's whereabouts?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lily · What happens: do, learn · To what, where: wind
This is exam question 3 of lesson 769 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trades her golden dress for one night, but the prince sleeps through it» 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 wind | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 wind | det |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Lily | Lily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 learn | nsubj |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | acl:relcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 whereabouts | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whereabouts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 prince | case |
| 11 | whereabouts | whereabouts | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 learn | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which wind | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | learn | infinitive | Lily | of the prince's whereabouts | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent of whereabouts=Topic |
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 south wind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 2 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wind | compound |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the wind that blew from the far mountains of the east
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 blew | nsubj |
| 4 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wind | acl:relcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 7 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mountains | amod |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blew | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 east | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 east | det |
| 11 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mountains | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the wind | from the far mountains of the east | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from mountain=Co-Patient |
Option 3
a wind from the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wind | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the wind that carried the scent of the Red Sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 scent | det |
| 6 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Sea | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sea | det |
| 9 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sea | compound |
| 10 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 scent | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the wind | the scent of the Red Sea | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scent | the Red Sea | nom scent «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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