Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and t…
Describe the means by which the king sought to avoid the prophesied fate.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, the, king · What happens: describe, mean, seek, avoid, prophesy · To what, where: prophesied fate · Speech: someone speaks here
This is exam question 4 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 | Describe | describe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Describe | ccomp |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sought | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sought | nsubj |
| 8 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 avoid | mark |
| 10 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sought | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fate | det |
| 12 | prophesied | prophesy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fate | amod |
| 13 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 avoid | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Describe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | the | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seek | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | avoid not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | the prophesied fate | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent fate=Location | ||||
| 5 | prophesy | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
by buying the slave girl and her son
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 buying | mark |
| 2 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | compound |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buying | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 son | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | gerund | the slave girl and her son | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
by buying the slave girl and her son and sending them far away to the desert
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 buying | mark |
| 2 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | compound |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buying | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 son | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sending | cc |
| 10 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 buying | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sending | obj |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 away | advmod |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 sending | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 desert | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 desert | det |
| 16 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 away | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | gerund | the slave girl and her son | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | gerund | girl | away property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
Option 3
by sending the girl away north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 sending | mark |
| 2 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sending | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 sending | advmod |
| 6 | north | north | ADV | _ | 2 sending | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send away | gerund | the girl | away, north property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
Option 4
by buying the slave girl and her son and raising the boy in his own palace
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 buying | mark |
| 2 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 4 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | compound |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 buying | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 son | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 girl | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 raising | cc |
| 10 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 buying | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boy | det |
| 12 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raising | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 palace | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 palace | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 palace | amod |
| 16 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 raising | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | gerund | the slave girl and her son | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||||
| 2 | raise | gerund | the boy | boy's own palace | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Theme in palace=Destination |
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