Exam question 4 · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinne…
What period of grace did the Prime Minister's counsel secure for the two prisoners?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: period · What happens: do · To what, where: counsel
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1527 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 24: stolen dinners lead the King to the real Princess» 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 | 5 did | obj |
| 2 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 grace | case |
| 4 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 period | nmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Minister | det |
| 7 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 8 Minister | compound |
| 8 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Minister | case |
| 10 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 11 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 did | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 prisoners | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prisoners | det |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 prisoners | nummod |
| 15 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 secure | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | period of grace | the Prime Minister's counsel | 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
until the King changed his mind entirely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 4 changed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | nsubj |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mind | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obj |
| 7 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 4 changed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | the King | King's mind | entirely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 2 | mind | King | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
ten years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a full fortnight of grace and mercy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fortnight | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fortnight | amod |
| 3 | fortnight | fortnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 grace | case |
| 5 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fortnight | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mercy | cc |
| 7 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fortnight | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
seven days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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