Exam question 3 · Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the…
In what manner did the Prince and the maid depart from the castle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maid · What happens: do, depart · To what, where: Prince, manner, castle
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1686 «Household Tales, The Iron Stove, the toad's gifts and the wedding» 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 | _ | 3 manner | case |
| 2 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 depart | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 maid | det |
| 9 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 depart | nsubj |
| 10 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 did | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 depart | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Prince | what manner | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | depart | infinitive | the maid | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial_Location |
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
on horseback through the forest during the day, slowly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 horseback | case |
| 2 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slowly | obl |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 forest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forest | det |
| 5 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horseback | nmod |
| 6 | during | during | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forest | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 horseback | punct |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
in a carriage at night
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 carriage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 carriage | det |
| 3 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carriage | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
in a golden carriage that the old toad had brought
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 carriage | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 carriage | det |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 carriage | amod |
| 4 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 brought | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 toad | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 toad | amod |
| 8 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carriage | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | a golden carriage not said here | the old toad | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
Option 4
by the river at dusk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 river | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 dusk | case |
| 5 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 river | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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