Exam question 3 · Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf:…
What did the old master request the prince to extend in greeting?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old master · What happens: do, request, extend · To what, where: prince, greeting
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1765 «Fairy Tales (pg641), The Prince and the White-headed Calf: the prince tricks the old master and he and the maiden escape» 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 master | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 master | amod |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 request | nsubj |
| 6 | request | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 request | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 extend | mark |
| 10 | extend | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 request | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 greeting | case |
| 12 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 extend | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | request | present | the old master | the prince | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | extend | to-infinitive | the old master not said here | greeting | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in greeting=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
his cap
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 | 2 cap | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
his hand
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 | 2 hand | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
his purse
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 | 2 purse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the prince to kneel and kiss his ring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 kneel | mark |
| 4 | kneel | kneel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 prince | acl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kiss | cc |
| 6 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kneel | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ring | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kiss | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | kiss | infinitive | his ring | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Co-Agent |
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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