Exam question 2 · Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets…

Of what occupation was the companion of the prince's youth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: occupation · What happens: be · To what, where: companion

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1236 «Fairy Book, The Golden Hen, part 37: a gardener's boy sets out to find a golden hen» 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	Of	of	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
3	occupation	occupation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 companion	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 companion	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 companion	det
6	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	acl:relcl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 youth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 prince	det
9	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 youth	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 prince	case
11	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 companion	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	occupation	the companion				of the prince's youth	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 son of the chief gardener

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 son	det
2	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 gardener	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gardener	det
5	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gardener	amod
6	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 son	nmod

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

Option 2

a poor boy from the far village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 village	det
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 village	amod
7	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 boy	nmod

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

Option 3

son of the miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 miller	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 son	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

son of the gardener

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 gardener	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardener	det
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 son	nmod

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

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