Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess La…
By what instruction was the prince restrained from hunting on the fourth side?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: prince · What happens: be, hunt · To what, where: fourth side
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1818 «Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam, part 1: the prince disobeys his mother and sets out to find Labam» 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 restrained | obj |
| 3 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 what | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 restrained | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 prince | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 restrained | nsubj |
| 7 | restrained | restrain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 hunting | mark |
| 9 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 restrained | advcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 12 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 side | amod |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hunting | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 restrained | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | restrain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | the prince not said here | the fourth side | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=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
By a rule from the old king
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 rule | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 rule | det |
| 3 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 king | amod |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rule | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
By his teacher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 teacher | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
By a warning from the guard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 warning | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 warning | det |
| 3 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 guard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 guard | det |
| 6 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 warning | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
By a prohibition from his mother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 prohibition | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 prohibition | det |
| 3 | prohibition | prohibition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 mother | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prohibition | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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