Exam question 2 · Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince win…

In accordance with the text, from what did the princess instruct the prince to abstain at the marriage feast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: instruct, abstain · To what, where: prince, accordance, marriage feast

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1654 «Danish Tales, The Witch and the White Dove: the prince wins back the princess, and the couple escapes the witch» 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 accordance	case
2	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 instruct	obl
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 text	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 text	det
5	text	text	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accordance	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 instruct	punct
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 what	case
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 instruct	obl
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 instruct	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 instruct	nsubj
12	instruct	instruct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 instruct	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 abstain	mark
16	abstain	abstain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 instruct	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 feast	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feast	det
19	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feast	compound
20	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 abstain	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 instruct	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past · do-support	the princess		the prince	accordance with the text			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient
2	abstain	to-infinitive	the princess not said here			the marriage feast			vn refrain-69 «NP V»: 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

from drinking wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	SCONJ	_	2 drinking	mark
2	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		wine					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient

Option 2

from speaking any word whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	SCONJ	_	2 speaking	mark
2	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 word	det
4	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 speaking	obj
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	PRON	PronType=Int	2 speaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund		any word					tree rules

Option 3

from eating any food whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	SCONJ	_	2 eating	mark
2	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eating	obj
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 eating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		any food				whatsoever property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

from drinking any beverage whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	from	from	SCONJ	_	2 drinking	mark
2	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 beverage	det
4	beverage	beverage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drinking	obj
5	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	2 drinking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund		any beverage				whatsoever property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beverage=Patient

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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