Exam question 3 · Andersen, The Wicked Prince, part 230: a poet-student asks…

From what source did the wicked prince's wealth derive?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: source · What happens: do, derive · To what, where: wealth

This is exam question 3 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
6	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 prince	amod
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wealth	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 prince	case
9	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
10	derive	derive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 what	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	source	the wicked prince's wealth					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Eventuality
2	derive	infinitive							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

From the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

From the conquered towns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 towns	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 towns	det
3	conquered	conquer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 towns	amod
4	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conquer	participle							vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

From the royal treasury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	4 treasury	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 treasury	det
3	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 treasury	amod
4	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

From bribes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 bribes	case
2	bribes	bribe	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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