Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Princess Labam: the prince wins he…

Which of the following was the prince's means of reaching the kettle-drum?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, be, mean, reach · To what, where: kettle drum

This is exam question 4 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 means	nsubj
2	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 means	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
4	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 prince	case
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prince	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	nsubj
8	's	's	PART	_	7 prince	case
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 reaching	mark
11	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 means	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 drum	det
13	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drum	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 kettle	punct
15	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reaching	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past		follow the prince	tree rules
3	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	reach	gerund	the kettle drum		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent drum=Theme

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

a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a ladder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ladder	det
2	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his magic bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bed	nmod:poss
2	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bed	compound
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a flying carpet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 carpet	det
2	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 carpet	amod
3	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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.

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