Exam question 4 · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

What did the young suitor resolve upon leaving the cellar?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young suitor · What happens: resolve, leave · To what, where: cellar

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	6 resolve	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 resolve	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 suitor	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 suitor	amod
5	suitor	suitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 resolve	nsubj
6	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 leaving	mark
8	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 resolve	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cellar	det
10	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaving	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 resolve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	past · do-support	the young suitor						tree rules
2	leave	gerund	the young suitor not said here	the cellar					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cellar=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

to search for three wiser people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 search	mark
2	search	search	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 people	case
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 people	nummod
5	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 search	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	search	to-infinitive						for three wiser people	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for people=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to find three wiser men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 men	nummod
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 men	amod
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		three wiser men					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to seek three persons more foolish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 seek	mark
2	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 persons	nummod
4	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 seek	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 foolish	advmod
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seek	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	to-infinitive		three persons				foolish property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme

Option 4

to visit the king's great court and ask for advice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 visit	mark
2	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 court	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 king	case
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 court	amod
7	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 visit	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ask	cc
9	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 visit	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 advice	case
11	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	to-infinitive		the king's great court					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Co-Agent
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive						for advice	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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