Exam question 1 · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…

Which condition did the wise woman lay down concerning visitors to the child?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: condition, wise woman · What happens: do, lie down · To what, where: concerning visitors

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1621 «Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king breaks his word, the princess dies, and the sentinels vanish one by one» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 condition	det
2	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	nsubj
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
8	down	down	ADV	_	7 lay	advmod
9	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 visitors	amod
10	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lay	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 child	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	which condition						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie down	past	the wise woman	concerning visitors				to the child; down property	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

Only the nurse might see the child until its twelfth year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nurse	det
3	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	until	until	ADP	_	11 year	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 year	nmod:poss
10	twelfth	twelfth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	might	the nurse	the child			year		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

Option 2

Nobody may see the child before it turns fourteen at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 see	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 see	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 turns	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turns	nsubj
8	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 see	advcl
9	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 turns	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	may	Nobody	the child					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
2	turn	present	child	fourteen		all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme fourteen=Result

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nobody	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No person was to visit the child until its fourteenth year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 visit	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 visit	mark
5	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	obj
8	until	until	ADP	_	11 year	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 year	nmod:poss
10	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 year	amod
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 visit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no person				year	visit property	tree rules

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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