Exam question 1 · Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks…
State the reason the stepmother incited her brother to declare war upon the emperor.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: reason · What happens: incite, declare · To what, where: State, war
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1802 «Roumanian Tales, The Milkwhite Maiden, part 53: the sparks become golden fishes, and the fishes become princes» 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 incited | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reason | det |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 incited | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stepmother | det |
| 5 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 incited | nsubj |
| 6 | incited | incite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 incited | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 declare | mark |
| 10 | declare | declare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 incited | xcomp |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 declare | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 emperor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 emperor | det |
| 14 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 declare | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 incited | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incite | past | the reason | State | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | to-infinitive | the reason not said here | war | upon the emperor | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=Attribute |
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 right answer
To remove the emperor from his wife's company
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 remove | mark |
| 2 | remove | remove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remove | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 company | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 company | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 9 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remove | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | to-infinitive | the emperor | his wife's company | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme from company=Source |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
To take the emperor from his wife
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 take | mark |
| 2 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | to-infinitive | the emperor | from his wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme from wife=Initial_Location |
Option 3
To remove the emperor from his wife's company so she could take power
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 remove | mark |
| 2 | remove | remove | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remove | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 company | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 company | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 9 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remove | obl |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 remove | advcl |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remove | to-infinitive | the emperor | his wife's company | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme from company=Source | ||||
| 2 | take | could | wife | power | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
Option 4
To separate the emperor and empress
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 separate | mark |
| 2 | separate | separate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emperor | det |
| 4 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 separate | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 empress | cc |
| 6 | empress | empress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 emperor | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | to-infinitive | the emperor and empress | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent emperor=Patient |
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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