Exam question 4 · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidd…
What occasioned the Prince's presence at the farm on the day described?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: occasion, describe · To what, where: presence, farm
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1092 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-skin, part 17: the Princess, hidden in her donkey skin, works at a farm and the Prince spies on her» 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 | 2 occasioned | nsubj |
| 2 | occasioned | occasion | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 presence | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Prince | case |
| 6 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 occasioned | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 farm | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 farm | det |
| 9 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 occasioned | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 occasioned | obl |
| 13 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 occasioned | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 occasioned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occasion | past | the Prince's presence | the farm | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | describe | participle | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer
his return from the hunt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 return | nmod:poss |
| 2 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 hunt | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunt | det |
| 5 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 return | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | his = he | the hunt | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
Option 2
he had been sent to bring the Princess back home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · perfect · passive | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring back | to-infinitive | he not said here | the Princess | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination |
Option 3
his ride to the market
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 ride | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 market | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 market | det |
| 5 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ride | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | his = he | to the market | nom ride «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a message from the king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 message | det |
| 2 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 message | 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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