Test 2 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56…

Where did the king send our lad, like, to some far-off province?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: be, send · To what, where: lad

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1255 «Tales of the Punjab, Nur Mahomed and the Princess, part 56: the princess swaps a letter and a wedding is ordered» of the books course of Mova's primary school. 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	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 send	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	nsubj
5	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lad	nmod:poss
7	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 province	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	16 province	case
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	16 province	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 province	det
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 province	advmod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 far	punct
15	off	off	ADP	_	16 province	case
16	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 send	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						where property	tree rules
2	send	present	the king	our lad				like some province	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme

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

To the governor of the remote province beyond the desert hills, days away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 governor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 governor	det
3	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 province	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 province	det
6	remote	remote	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 province	amod
7	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 governor	nmod
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	11 hills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hills	det
10	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hills	compound
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 province	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 days	punct
13	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 governor	conj
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 days	advmod

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

Option 2

To some faraway province, a long trek across rivers and mountains by horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 province	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 province	det
3	faraway	faraway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 province	amod
4	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 trek	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trek	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trek	amod
8	trek	trek	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 province	appos
9	across	across	ADP	_	10 rivers	case
10	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trek	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mountains	cc
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rivers	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 horse	case
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trek	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To the governor, four or five days off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 governor	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 governor	det
3	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 days	punct
5	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 five	cc
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 four	conj
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 governor	parataxis
9	off	off	ADV	_	8 days	advmod

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

Option 4

To a distant town, some ten days north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	4 town	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 town	det
3	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 town	amod
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 days	punct
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 days	det
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 town	obl:unmarked
9	north	north	ADV	_	8 days	advmod

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

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