Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest princ…
Which article did the huntsman bring home to the old king as proof of the prince's supposed death?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: article, prince · What happens: bring, suppose, proof, die · To what, where: old king, supposed death
This is exam question 2 of lesson 775 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest prince is cheated, then wins his bride» 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 article | det |
| 2 | article | article | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 huntsman | det |
| 5 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 king | amod |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 proof | case |
| 13 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 death | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 prince | case |
| 18 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 death | amod |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proof | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · do-support | which article | the old king | as proof of the prince's supposed death; home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to king=Destination | |||
| 2 | suppose | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | proof | the prince's supposed death | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | die | the prince | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
His silver crown
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 crown | nmod:poss |
| 2 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crown | amod |
| 3 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | His = he | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
His bloody hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hat | amod |
| 3 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The prince's bloodied royal coat and belt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 prince | case |
| 4 | bloodied | bloody | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 coat | amod |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coat | amod |
| 6 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 belt | cc |
| 8 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bloody | participle | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The prince's royal coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 prince | case |
| 4 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coat | amod |
| 5 | coat | coat | 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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