Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 2: th…
What was the appearance of the cavern walls as the prince advanced through the cave?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: appearance · What happens: be, advance · To what, where: prince, cave
This is exam question 2 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 appearance | det |
| 4 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 walls | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 walls | det |
| 7 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walls | compound |
| 8 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appearance | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walls | nmod |
| 12 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 prince | acl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 cave | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cave | det |
| 15 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 advanced | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the appearance of the cavern walls as the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | advance | participle | the prince not said here | the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through cave=Initial_Location |
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
a warm room with soft carpet beds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 room | det |
| 2 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 room | amod |
| 3 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 beds | case |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beds | amod |
| 6 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beds | compound |
| 7 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 room | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a dark tunnel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tunnel | det |
| 2 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tunnel | amod |
| 3 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
a chapel for the dead, with petrified organs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 chapel | det |
| 2 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 dead | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dead | det |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 chapel | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 organs | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 organs | case |
| 8 | petrified | petrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 organs | amod |
| 9 | organs | organ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chapel | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | petrify | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
a bright garden full of flowers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 garden | amod |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 garden | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 flowers | case |
| 6 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
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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