Exam question 4 · Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part…

What, according to the bumble-bee, was the proper place of a boy of the prince's years at that hour?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: accord, be · To what, where: proper place

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1228 «Andrew Lang's fairy book, The Prince and the Mermaid, part 29: the prince runs from the mermaid and becomes a lion and a bear» 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	13 place	dep
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bee	punct
3	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 bee	case
4	to	to	ADP	_	3 according	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bee	det
6	bumble	bumble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bee	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 bumble	punct
8	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bee	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 place	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 boy	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 boy	det
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 years	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 prince	det
19	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 years	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 prince	case
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 boy	nmod
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 hour	case
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 hour	det
24	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 place	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund							vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the proper place			hour	of a boy of the prince's years	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

In the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 village	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 village	det
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Abroad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Abroad	abroad	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

At school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 school	case
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Safe at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 home	case
3	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Safe	obl

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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