Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees…
Specify the monarch who was killed in the church by a stone thrown through a window.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, stone · What happens: specify, kill, throw · To what, where: monarch, church, stone, window
This is exam question 3 of lesson 801 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell-Deep: the king's son sees the sunset, meets the poor boy, and the old Bell tells its tales» 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monarch | det |
| 3 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | aux:pass |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 monarch | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 church | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 church | det |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obl |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stone | acl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 window | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 window | det |
| 16 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the monarch | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent monarch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | a stone | the monarch | the church | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | throw | participle | a stone not said here | a window | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through window=Destination |
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
King Canute
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Canute | Canute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Prince Svend
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Svend | Svend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the Bell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bell | det |
| 2 | Bell | Bell | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the old King Canute of Denmark
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Canute | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Canute | amod |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Canute | compound |
| 4 | Canute | Canute | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Denmark | case |
| 6 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Canute | nmod |
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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