Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: th…

Which being conveyed the prince across the marble bridge to the island of happiness?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: convey · To what, where: prince, marble bridge

This is exam question 1 of lesson 935 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: the prince enters the garden of paradise» 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 conveyed	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 conveyed	aux:pass
3	conveyed	convey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	obj
6	across	across	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridge	det
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bridge	compound
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 island	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 island	det
12	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 conveyed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 happiness	case
14	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 island	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 conveyed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convey	gerund · passive		the prince		the marble bridge		to the island of happiness	tree rules

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

the strong wind that blew across the sea from the north

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	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wind	amod
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 blew	nsubj
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wind	acl:relcl
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 north	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 north	det
11	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the strong wind			the sea		from the north	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from north=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the old Swallow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Swallow	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Swallow	amod
3	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the North 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	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the East 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	East	East	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	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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