Exam question 2 · Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of t…

What did the second prince declare, upon observing the blood flowing from the birch?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second prince, blood · What happens: declare, observe, flow · To what, where: blood, birch

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1758 «Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret» 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 declare	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 declare	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
4	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 prince	amod
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 declare	nsubj
6	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 observing	punct
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	9 observing	mark
9	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 declare	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 blood	det
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 observing	obj
12	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 blood	acl
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 birch	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 birch	det
15	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flowing	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 declare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past · do-support	the second prince			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	observe	gerund	the second prince not said here	the blood		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blood=Topic
3	flow	gerund	the blood not said here		the birch	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

"Alas! both my brothers were slain."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 slain	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	8 slain	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 brothers	det:predet
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brothers	nmod:poss
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slain	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 slain	cop
8	slain	slain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 slain	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 slain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	my brothers					slain property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"Alas! both my brothers are dead."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	8 dead	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 brothers	det:predet
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brothers	nmod:poss
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dead	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	my brothers					dead property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

"Alas! both my brothers are dead, and I must now find the witch."

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	8 dead	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 brothers	det:predet
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brothers	nmod:poss
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dead	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 find	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 find	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 find	advmod
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 dead	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 witch	det
16	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	my brothers					dead property	tree rules
2	find in a quote	must	I	the witch			now		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Topic

Option 4

"Alas! both of my dear brothers have been turned to stone by a beast."

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	11 turned	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 turned	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 brothers	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brothers	nmod:poss
7	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brothers	amod
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 both	nmod
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 turned	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 turned	aux:pass
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 stone	case
13	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 beast	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 beast	det
16	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 turned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn in a quote	present · perfect · passive	a beast	both		stone			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1758-pg641-part9/e2/