Exam question 2 · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Princ…
By what means did the Prince's intervention preserve the three afflicted provinces?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: intervention, Prince · What happens: mean, do, preserve, afflict, intervene · To what, where: three afflicted provinces
This is exam question 2 of lesson 117 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Water of Life: the youngest Prince is betrayed, spared, and forgiven» 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | obj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 intervention | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 8 | intervention | intervention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 preserve | nsubj |
| 9 | preserve | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 provinces | det |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 provinces | nummod |
| 12 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 provinces | amod |
| 13 | provinces | province | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 preserve | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | preserve | present | the Prince's intervention | the three afflicted provinces | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent province=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | afflict | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | intervene | the Prince | nom intervention «act intransitive»: poss=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
with the bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 bread | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bread | det |
| 3 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
by giving gold and his horse
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 giving | mark |
| 2 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 giving | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 horse | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | gold and his horse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
by supplying bread and the sword
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 supplying | mark |
| 2 | supplying | supply | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 supplying | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sword | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bread | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | supply | gerund | bread and the sword | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient |
Option 4
by feeding the lions the meat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 feeding | mark |
| 2 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lions | det |
| 4 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feeding | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 meat | det |
| 6 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 feeding | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | gerund | the meat | the lions | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient meat=Theme |
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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