Exam question 1 · Andersen's tales, The Golden Treasure: Peter learns Charlo…
Which person is identified in the text as the betrothed of the state councillor's son?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: identify, betroth · To what, where: person, text
This is exam question 1 of lesson 836 «Andersen's tales, The Golden Treasure: Peter learns Charlotte is engaged, becomes famous, and the tale ends as the next one begins» 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 person | det |
| 2 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identified | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 identified | aux:pass |
| 4 | identified | identify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 text | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 text | det |
| 7 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 identified | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 betrothed | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 betrothed | det |
| 10 | betrothed | betroth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 identified | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 son | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 councillor | det |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 councillor | compound |
| 14 | councillor | councillor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 councillor | case |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 betrothed | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 identified | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | present · passive | which person | the text | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | betroth | participle | of the state councillor's son | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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
Charlotte
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The baker's youngest girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 baker | det |
| 2 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 baker | case |
| 4 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 girl | amod |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The bride
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bride | det |
| 2 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Burgomaster's Charlotte
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burgomaster | Burgomaster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Charlotte | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Burgomaster | case |
| 3 | Charlotte | Charlotte | PROPN | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/836-pg27200-part47/e1/