Exam question 4 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es…

What was the final outcome of the narrative, as stated therein?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, state · To what, where: final outcome

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» 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	5 outcome	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 outcome	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 outcome	det
4	final	final	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 outcome	amod
5	outcome	outcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 narrative	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 narrative	det
8	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 outcome	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stated	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 stated	mark
11	stated	state	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 outcome	conj
12	therein	therein	ADV	_	11 stated	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 outcome	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the final outcome				of the narrative	tree rules
2	state speech: other	participle						therein property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

The prince went home and wept alone

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	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wept	cc
6	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 wept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the prince					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	weep	past	the prince not said here					alone property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The couple married and lived happily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 couple	det
2	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 married	nsubj
3	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lived	cc
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	conj
6	happily	happily	ADV	_	5 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	the couple						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	live	past	the couple not said here					happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The prince forgot the girl and the couple never met again in the whole kingdom

The tree, 15 words

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	3 forgot	nsubj
3	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girl	det
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forgot	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 met	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 couple	det
8	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 met	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 met	advmod
10	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forgot	conj
11	again	again	ADV	_	10 met	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 kingdom	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 kingdom	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 kingdom	amod
15	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	the prince	the girl					tree rules
2	not meet	past	the couple			the whole kingdom	again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The couple married and lived happily ever after in the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 couple	det
2	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 married	nsubj
3	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lived	cc
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	conj
6	happily	happily	ADV	_	5 lived	advmod
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 lived	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	11 palace	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 palace	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	the couple						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	live	past	the couple not said here				after the palace; ever	happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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/1813-pg641-part64/e4/