Exam question 4 · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the younges…

What was the final destination of the fugitives at the close of this part?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: final destination · What happens: be

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1292 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the youngest prince goes down the well and the pair escape the giants» 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 destination	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 destination	amod
5	destination	destination	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 fugitives	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fugitives	det
8	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 destination	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 close	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 close	det
11	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fugitives	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 part	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 part	det
14	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 close	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the final destination of the fugitives at the close of this part						tree rules

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 domain of the great magician, which lay beyond the seven hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 domain	det
2	domain	domain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 magician	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magician	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magician	amod
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 domain	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lay	nsubj
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	13 hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hills	det
12	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hills	nummod
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the domain of the great magician			the seven hills			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond hill=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The domain of the great magician

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 domain	det
2	domain	domain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 magician	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magician	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 magician	amod
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 domain	nmod

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

Option 3

The kingdom of the old wizard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kingdom	det
2	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 wizard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wizard	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wizard	amod
6	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kingdom	nmod

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

Option 4

The vast domain of the great magician, where the giant had been bound in chains forever

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 domain	det
2	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 domain	amod
3	domain	domain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 magician	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 magician	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 magician	amod
7	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 domain	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bound	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 bound	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bound	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bound	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 bound	aux:pass
14	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 domain	acl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 chains	case
16	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bound	obl
17	forever	forever	ADV	_	14 bound	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bind	past · perfect · passive		the giant				in chains; forever property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in chain=Theme

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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