Exam question 4 · Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess str…
What was the final destination of the Princess's journey as described in this part of the narrative?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Princess · What happens: be, describe, journey · To what, where: final destination, journey, part
This is exam question 4 of lesson 1529 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Pig King, part 26: the Princess struggles across deserts and mountains to the Sun's palace» 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 destination | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 destination | 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 | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 journey | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Princess | case |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 destination | nmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 described | mark |
| 12 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 journey | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 part | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 part | det |
| 15 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 described | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 narrative | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 narrative | det |
| 18 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 part | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 destination | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the final destination | of the Princess's journey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | describe | participle | the Princess's journey not said here | this part of the narrative | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | journey | the Princess | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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 bright palace in the east where the Sun lived with his many servants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 palace | det |
| 2 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 palace | amod |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 east | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 east | det |
| 6 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 palace | nmod |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sun | det |
| 9 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 servants | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 servants | nmod:poss |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 servants | amod |
| 14 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the bright palace in the east | with Sun's many servants | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with servant=Location |
Option 2
the golden hall of the morning star
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hall | det |
| 2 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hall | amod |
| 3 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 star | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 star | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 star | compound |
| 7 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hall | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the palace in which the Sun lived after crossing the seas and deserts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 palace | acl:relcl |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 crossing | mark |
| 9 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lived | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seas | det |
| 11 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crossing | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 deserts | cc |
| 13 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seas | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Sun | the palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 2 | cross | gerund | the Sun not said here | the seas and deserts | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the palace in which the Sun lived
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 palace | det |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 palace | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Sun | the palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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