Exam question 1 · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

What did the young man intend to achieve by the feast of Easter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young man · What happens: intend, achieve

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1019 «Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks a wise woman for help, and a cruel prince wins riches by destroying other lands» 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	6 intend	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 intend	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 intend	nsubj
6	intend	intend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 achieve	mark
8	achieve	achieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 intend	xcomp
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 feast	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 feast	det
11	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 achieve	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Easter	case
13	Easter	Easter	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 feast	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 intend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	intend	past · do-support	the young man						tree rules
2	achieve not said to happen	to-infinitive	the young man not said here					by the feast of Easter	vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

To write a book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 write	mark
2	write	write	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 book	det
4	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 write	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	write	to-infinitive		a book					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme

Option 2

To earn his bread by writing poems for the rich lords of the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 earn	mark
2	earn	earn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bread	nmod:poss
4	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 earn	obj
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 writing	mark
6	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 earn	advcl
7	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 writing	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 lords	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lords	det
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lords	amod
11	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 writing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 town	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 town	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lords	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	earn	to-infinitive		his bread					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme
2	write	gerund		poems				for the rich lords of the town	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent poem=Result for lord=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To become a poet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 become	mark
2	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poet	det
4	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	to-infinitive		a poet					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 4

To live off his poems and become famous in every corner of the kingdom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 live	mark
2	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 become	advcl
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 live	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 poems	nmod:poss
5	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 become	cc
7	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 become	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 corner	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 corner	det
11	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 become	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 kingdom	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kingdom	det
14	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 corner	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live off	to-infinitive		his poems					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme poem=Location
2	become	present						in every corner of the kingdom result; famous property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in corner=Result

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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