Exam question 1 · Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince cl…
What was the prophesied manner of the prince's death?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prophesied manner, prince · What happens: be, prophesy, die
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1240 «Fairy Book, The Prince and His Dog, part 41: the prince climbs to the princess's window» 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 | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 manner | det |
| 4 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 manner | amod |
| 5 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 manner | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the prophesied manner of the prince's death | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | prophesy | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | die | the prince | nom death «event 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
By a wolf or a bear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 wolf | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wolf | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 bear | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wolf | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
By a crocodile, a serpent, or a dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 crocodile | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crocodile | det |
| 3 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 serpent | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 serpent | det |
| 6 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crocodile | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dog | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 dog | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crocodile | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By drowning in the swift river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 drowning | mark |
| 2 | drowning | drown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 5 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 river | compound |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drowning | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | gerund | the swift river | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
By a serpent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 serpent | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 serpent | det |
| 3 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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