Exam question 4 · Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince…

What does the king of the Goldland promise the stranger in return for guidance?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Goldland · What happens: do, promise · To what, where: king, stranger, return

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1762 «Fairy Tales pg641, The Lute Player and The Grateful Prince, part 13: the queen wins back her king, then a lost king makes a bargain with a stranger» 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	root	root
2	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 promise	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Goldland	det
7	Goldland	Goldland	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 promise	nsubj
8	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 king	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	iobj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 return	case
12	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 promise	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 guidance	case
14	guidance	guidance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 return	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the king					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality
2	promise speech: promise	present	the Goldland	the king not said here	the stranger	return for guidance			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent stranger=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

the first creature that leaves his home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 creature	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 leaves	nsubj
5	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 creature	acl:relcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 home	nmod:poss
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leaves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	present	the first creature	his home					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme

Option 2

his best dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dog	nmod:poss
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 dog	amod
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the first thing that comes out of his house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	the first thing	his house					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the first servant who walks out of his house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servant	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 servant	amod
3	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 walks	nsubj
5	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 servant	acl:relcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 house	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk out	present	the first servant	his house					vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Attribute

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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