Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, How the Raja's Son won the Princess La…
What circumstance prompted the parrot king to address his flock?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: circumstance · What happens: prompt, address · To what, where: parrot king, flock
This is exam question 2 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 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 circumstance | det |
| 2 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prompted | nsubj |
| 3 | prompted | prompt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | compound |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prompted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 address | mark |
| 8 | address | address | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prompted | advcl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 flock | nmod:poss |
| 10 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 address | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 prompted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prompt | past | what circumstance | the parrot king | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition king=Patient | ||||
| 2 | address | to-infinitive | what circumstance not said here | circumstance's flock | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Destination |
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
The prince's discharge of his weapon
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 | 4 discharge | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 prince | case |
| 4 | discharge | discharge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 weapon | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 weapon | nmod:poss |
| 7 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 discharge | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discharge | the prince | his weapon | nom discharge «event transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The loud crack of a stick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crack | det |
| 2 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crack | amod |
| 3 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 stick | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stick | det |
| 6 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crack | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The prince's sudden arrival at the tank
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 | 5 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 prince | case |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 arrival | amod |
| 5 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 tank | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tank | det |
| 8 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrival | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | the prince | the tank | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place |
Option 4
A gunshot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gunshot | det |
| 2 | gunshot | gunshot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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