Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and t…
Specify the occupation of Puruna, mother of the prophesied bridegroom.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: specify, prophesy, occupy · To what, where: occupation, Puruna
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1253 «Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and the hermit's prophecy» 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 | Specify | specify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 occupation | det |
| 3 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Specify | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Puruna | case |
| 5 | Puruna | Puruna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 occupation | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mother | punct |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occupation | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bridegroom | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bridegroom | det |
| 10 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 bridegroom | amod |
| 11 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Specify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | specify | imperative | you not said here | the occupation of Puruna and mother of the prophesied bridegroom | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent occupation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prophesy | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | occupy | Puruna | nom occupation «act transitive»: of=patient |
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
a royal servant
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 servant | amod |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a slave-girl who lived in the northern king's household
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 slave | punct |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 girl | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 household | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 9 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 king | amod |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 household | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a slave girl | the northern king's household | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in household=Location |
Option 3
a kitchen maid
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 maid | det |
| 2 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 maid | compound |
| 3 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a slave-girl
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 girl | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 slave | punct |
| 4 | girl | girl | 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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