Exam question 4 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is take…

What action did the prince undertake upon awakening on the third occasion?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: action · What happens: undertake, awaken · To what, where: third occasion

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1761 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Lute Player, part 1: a king is taken prisoner and his queen sets out disguised as a boy» 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 undertake	obj
2	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 undertake	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 undertake	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prince	det
5	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 undertake	nsubj
6	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	8 awakening	mark
8	awakening	awaken	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 undertake	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 occasion	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 occasion	det
11	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 occasion	amod
12	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 awakening	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 undertake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake	past · do-support	action						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	awaken	gerund	action not said here			the third occasion			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on occasion=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

he rubbed his eyes

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 rubbed	nsubj
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rubbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	past	he	his eyes					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he rose

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 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he sat up

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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he sprang to his feet

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 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 feet	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feet	nmod:poss
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sprang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	he			his feet			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination

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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