Exam question 1 · Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa…

To what land did Insato lead Gopani-Kufa beneath the earth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Insato · What happens: lead · To what, where: Gopani

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1137 «Told by the Natives, The Magic Mirror, part 1: Gopani-Kufa frees a python king and is promised a reward» 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 lead	obj
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lead	aux
5	Insato	Insato	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lead	nsubj
6	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Gopani	Gopani	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lead	obj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Gopani	punct
9	Kufa	Kufa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Gopani	flat
10	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lead	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	past · do-support	Insato	Gopani				beneath the earth	tree rules

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 country of Zengi, ruled by a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 country	det
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Zengi	case
4	Zengi	Zengi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 country	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ruled	punct
6	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 country	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ruled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	participle		the country of Zengi not said here				by a king	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

to the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	ADP	_	3 hills	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hills	det
3	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

the land of Pita, ruled by Insato, which lay far beneath the roots of the mountains

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Pita	case
4	Pita	Pita	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 land	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ruled	punct
6	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 land	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Insato	case
8	Insato	Insato	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ruled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lay	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lay	nsubj
11	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 lay	advmod
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	15 roots	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 roots	det
15	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lay	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mountains	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mountains	det
18	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 roots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	participle		the land of Pita not said here				by Insato	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	the land of Pita			the roots of the mountains		far property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath root=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the land of Pita, ruled by Insato

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Pita	case
4	Pita	Pita	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 land	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 ruled	punct
6	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 land	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 Insato	case
8	Insato	Insato	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ruled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	participle		the land of Pita not said here				by Insato	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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