Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales, The Princess in the Chest, part 10: the king…
What was the outcome for each sentinel posted beside the princess's chest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, post · To what, where: outcome, sentinel, chest
This is exam question 4 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 outcome | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 outcome | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 outcome | det |
| 4 | outcome | outcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 sentinel | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sentinel | det |
| 7 | sentinel | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 outcome | nmod |
| 8 | posted | post | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sentinel | acl |
| 9 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 chest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chest | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 princess | case |
| 13 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 posted | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 outcome | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the outcome | for each sentinel | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | post | participle | each sentinel not said here | the princess's chest | vn send-11.1 «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 · ✓ the right answer
He vanished without trace and was never seen again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 vanished | nsubj |
| 2 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 trace | case |
| 4 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vanished | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seen | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 seen | advmod |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 vanished | conj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 seen | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | He | without trace | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | He not said here | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
Option 2
He was found dead beside the chest at dawn each day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux:pass |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | xcomp |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 7 chest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chest | det |
| 7 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 dawn | case |
| 9 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | He | the chest | dawn; day | dead property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
Option 3
He vanished without trace from the chapel during the night and was never seen again by anyone in the town
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 vanished | nsubj |
| 2 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 trace | case |
| 4 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vanished | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 chapel | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chapel | det |
| 7 | chapel | chapel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vanished | obl |
| 8 | during | during | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vanished | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seen | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux:pass |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 seen | advmod |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 vanished | conj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 seen | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 anyone | case |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 seen | obl:agent |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 town | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 town | det |
| 20 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 anyone | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | He | the chapel | night | without trace | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from chapel=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | anyone | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
He vanished without trace and was never seen again, though the chest stayed shut
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 vanished | nsubj |
| 2 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | without | without | ADP | _ | 4 trace | case |
| 4 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vanished | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 seen | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 seen | advmod |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 vanished | conj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 seen | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stayed | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 stayed | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 chest | det |
| 13 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stayed | nsubj |
| 14 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 vanished | conj |
| 15 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stayed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | He | without trace | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | past · passive | He not said here | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | the chest | shut property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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