Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfarona…

Upon what kind of land did the Princess and the Ambassador subsequently find themselves cast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: do, find, cast · To what, where: Princess

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1509 «Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfaronade eats all the food and the Princess vanishes» 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 kind	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 kind	det
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 land	case
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kind	nmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 find	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Ambassador	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ambassador	det
11	Ambassador	Ambassador	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Princess	conj
12	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	_	13 find	advmod
13	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 did	parataxis
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 find	obj
15	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 find	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past			upon what kind of land	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	present	the Princess and the Ambassador	Princess	subsequently property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme
3	cast	participle	Princess not said here			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

A ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cave	det
2	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A foreign harbour town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 town	det
2	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 town	amod
3	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 town	compound
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

An uninhabited island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 island	det
2	uninhabited	uninhabited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 island	amod
3	island	island	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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