Exam question 2 · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the…
On what day did the princess instruct Prince Ratibor to come with horses and men to the hill?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: do, instruct, come · To what, where: Prince, hill
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1252 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Gnome and the Princess: the princess tricks the gnome and escapes» 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 day | nsubj |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 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 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 instruct | nsubj |
| 7 | instruct | instruct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 instruct | obj |
| 9 | Ratibor | Ratibor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Prince | flat |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 come | mark |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 instruct | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 horses | case |
| 13 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 come | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 men | cc |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 horses | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 come | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | present | the princess | Prince | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | the hill | with horses and men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location |
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 second day from now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 now | case |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the next day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the third day from this
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the day before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 day | advmod |
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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