Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives t…

With reference to the passage, state what the soothsayer's second son was told by the horoscope that he would experience.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: horoscope, he · What happens: tell, experience · To what, where: second son, horoscope · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1829 «Indian Fairy Tales, Loving Laili, part 13: Laili revives the wicked Raja, and the couple escape to King Dantal's palace» 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 reference	case
2	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 passage	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passage	det
5	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reference	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 state	punct
7	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passage	conj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 told	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 soothsayer	det
10	soothsayer	soothsayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 soothsayer	case
12	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 son	amod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	aux:pass
15	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 passage	acl:relcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 horoscope	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horoscope	det
18	horoscope	horoscope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 experience	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 experience	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 experience	aux
22	experience	experience	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 horoscope	acl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reference	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · passive	the horoscope	the soothsayer's second son					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient what=Topic
2	experience	would	he	the horoscope not said here					vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horoscope=Stimulus

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 right answer

Poverty from birth, imprisonment for ten years, and death on the sea-shore

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poverty	Poverty	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 birth	case
3	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 imprisonment	punct
5	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	appos
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 imprisonment	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 death	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 death	cc
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	appos
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 shore	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shore	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shore	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sea	punct
16	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 death	nmod

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

Option 2

Poverty from birth, exile for ten years, and death in a foreign land far away

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poverty	Poverty	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 birth	case
3	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 exile	punct
5	exile	exile	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	appos
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 exile	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 death	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 death	cc
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	appos
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 land	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 land	det
14	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 land	amod
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 death	nmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 away	advmod
17	away	away	ADV	_	11 death	advmod

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

Option 3

Poverty from birth, imprisonment for ten years, and death on the sea-shore after a long voyage

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poverty	Poverty	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 birth	case
3	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 imprisonment	punct
5	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	appos
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 imprisonment	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 death	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 death	cc
11	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	appos
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 shore	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shore	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shore	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 sea	punct
16	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 death	nmod
17	after	after	ADP	_	20 voyage	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 voyage	det
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 voyage	amod
20	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shore	nmod

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

Option 4

Poverty from birth, imprisonment for ten years, and a death by fire in the palace

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poverty	Poverty	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 birth	case
3	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 imprisonment	punct
5	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	appos
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 imprisonment	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 death	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 death	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 death	det
12	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Poverty	appos
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 fire	case
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 death	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 palace	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 palace	det
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 death	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die		fire			the palace			nom death «event intransitive»: by=agent in=place

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