Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…
What is the price, stated in the text, that the swineherd demands for the pot from the princess?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: swineherd · What happens: be, state, demand · To what, where: price, text
This is exam question 1 of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» 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 price | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 price | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 price | det |
| 4 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stated | punct |
| 6 | stated | state | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 price | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 text | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 text | det |
| 9 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 demands | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 demands | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 swineherd | det |
| 13 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 demands | nsubj |
| 14 | demands | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 price | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 pot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pot | det |
| 17 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 demands | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 princess | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 demands | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 price | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the price | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | state speech: other | participle | the price not said here | the text | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | present | the swineherd | for the pot; from the princess | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Theme from princess=Source |
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
ten kisses from the princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kisses | nummod |
| 2 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kisses | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ten gold coins from her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 coins | nummod |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coins | compound |
| 3 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 coins | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
ten kisses from the princess and a golden ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 kisses | nummod |
| 2 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kisses | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 ring | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ring | amod |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 princess | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a hundred kisses from her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 kisses | nummod |
| 3 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 kisses | 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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