Exam question 4 · Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride…
What was the eventual fate of the two elder brothers following the wedding festivities?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two elder brothers · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: eventual fate, wedding festivities
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1143 «Gutenberg 3027, Ian and the Grey Horse: Ian wins the bride, the spells break, and the false brothers are shamed» 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 | 5 fate | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fate | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fate | det |
| 4 | eventual | eventual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fate | amod |
| 5 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 brothers | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brothers | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 brothers | nummod |
| 9 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brothers | amod |
| 10 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fate | nmod |
| 11 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 brothers | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 festivities | det |
| 13 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 festivities | compound |
| 14 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 following | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 fate | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the eventual fate | of the two elder brothers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | the two elder brothers not said here | the wedding festivities | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festivity=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
they departed the country in great shame
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 departed | nsubj |
| 2 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 departed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 shame | case |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shame | amod |
| 7 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 departed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | they | the country | great shame | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Initial_Location |
Option 2
they fled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fled | nsubj |
| 2 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | they | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
they departed the country
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 departed | nsubj |
| 2 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 departed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | they | the country | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Initial_Location |
Option 4
they sailed far away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sailed | nsubj |
| 2 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 sailed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | they | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: 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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