Exam question 3 · Andersen's tales, The Golden Treasure: Peter learns Charlo…
What is the name given in the text to the fairy who attends to the more trifling gifts of Fortune?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fairy · What happens: be, give, attend, gift · To what, where: name, fairy, text, Fortune
This is exam question 3 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 name | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 name | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 name | det |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 name | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 text | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 text | det |
| 8 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 fairy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fairy | det |
| 11 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 attends | nsubj |
| 13 | attends | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 gifts | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gifts | det |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 gifts | amod |
| 17 | trifling | trifling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gifts | compound |
| 18 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 attends | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Fortune | case |
| 20 | Fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gifts | nmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 name | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | participle | the name not said here | the fairy | the text | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to fairy=Recipient | |||
| 3 | attend | present | the fairy | to the more trifling gifts of Fortune | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to gift=Theme | ||||
| 4 | gift | Fortune | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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 chambermaid of Fortune's attendant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chambermaid | det |
| 2 | chambermaid | chambermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 attendant | case |
| 4 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 attendant | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Fortune | case |
| 6 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chambermaid | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The page of the golden coach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 page | det |
| 2 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 coach | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coach | det |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 coach | amod |
| 6 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 page | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | page | the golden coach | nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
The chambermaid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 chambermaid | det |
| 2 | chambermaid | chambermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The servant of the goddess Hope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servant | det |
| 2 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Hope | nmod:desc |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 goddess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goddess | det |
| 5 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 servant | nmod |
| 6 | Hope | Hope | 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.
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