Exam question 3 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…

What was the ultimate condition set by the king before the marriage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, set · To what, where: ultimate condition

This is exam question 3 of lesson 1820 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins her with ants, tigers, a flying bed and a hair» 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 condition	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 condition	det
4	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 condition	amod
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 condition	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 marriage	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 marriage	det
12	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ultimate condition					tree rules
2	set	participle		the ultimate condition not said here			before the marriage	by the king	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by king=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 · ← Mova's choice

the splitting of the tree-trunk with a wax hatchet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 splitting	det
2	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 trunk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trunk	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trunk	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tree	punct
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splitting	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 hatchet	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hatchet	det
10	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hatchet	compound
11	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	gerund						of the tree trunk; with a wax hatchet	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of trunk=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the splitting of the tree-trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 splitting	det
2	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 trunk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trunk	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trunk	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tree	punct
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	gerund						of the tree trunk	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of trunk=Co-Patient

Option 3

the killing of the two demons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 killing	det
2	killing	killing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 demons	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 demons	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 demons	nummod
6	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 killing	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill			the two demons					nom killing «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

the splitting of the tree-trunk by the prince's own hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 splitting	det
2	splitting	split	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 trunk	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trunk	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trunk	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 tree	punct
7	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 splitting	obl
8	by	by	ADP	_	13 hands	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hands	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 prince	case
12	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hands	amod
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 splitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	split	gerund						of the tree trunk; by the prince's own hands	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient of trunk=Co-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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