Exam question 1 · The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, pa…

Pursuant to the narrative, by what name and place of origin was the barefoot stranger identified when he disclosed his identity?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: barefoot stranger, name, narrative · What happens: name, be, identify, disclose · To what, where: barefoot stranger, identity

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1200 «The Brown Fairy Book, What the Rose did to the Cypress, part 1: a prince chases a deer, gets lost in the desert and meets a barefoot stranger who is a lost king» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 narrative	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 identified	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 name	punct
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 name	nsubj
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stranger	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 place	cc
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 origin	case
12	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 place	nmod
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stranger	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stranger	det
15	barefoot	barefoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stranger	compound
16	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrative	acl:relcl
17	identified	identify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 disclosed	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 disclosed	nsubj
20	disclosed	disclose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 identified	ccomp
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 identity	nmod:poss
22	identity	identity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 disclosed	obj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 identified	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	name		the barefoot stranger		tree rules
2	is a	past	name and place of origin	the barefoot stranger	tree rules
3	identify	past	the narrative		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	disclose	past	narrative	narrative's identity	vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot identity=Topic

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

King Bahram of Nineveh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bahram	compound
2	Bahram	Bahram	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Nineveh	case
4	Nineveh	Nineveh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Bahram	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Prince Mihr-afruz of Turkistan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	Mihr	Mihr	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Prince	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 afruz	punct
4	afruz	afruz	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Prince	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Turkistan	case
6	Turkistan	Turkistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 afruz	nmod

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

Option 3

King Janangir of Babylon, the seventh son of the old king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Janangir	compound
2	Janangir	Janangir	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Babylon	case
4	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Janangir	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 son	det
7	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 son	amod
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Janangir	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 king	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 king	amod
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

King Janangir of Babylon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Janangir	compound
2	Janangir	Janangir	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Babylon	case
4	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Janangir	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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