Exam question 2 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three a…

In what location does Gangazara, according to his father's prophecy, expect to meet his death?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Gangazara · What happens: do, accord, expect, meet, die · To what, where: Gangazara, location, prophecy, death

This is exam question 2 of lesson 1830 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Soothsayer's Son, part 14: three animals and a goldsmith are pulled from a well, and years later a tiger brings a crown» 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 location	case
2	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 location	det
3	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obl
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Gangazara	Gangazara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 according	punct
7	according	accord	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 does	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	12 prophecy	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 prophecy	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 father	case
12	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 according	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 expect	punct
14	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 does	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 meet	mark
16	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 expect	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 death	nmod:poss
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meet	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present		Gangazara	what location		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gangazara=Eventuality
2	accord	gerund				to Gangazara's father's prophecy goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to prophecy=Goal
3	expect	infinitive					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive		Gangazara's death			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent
5	die		Gangazara				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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

On a sea coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 coast	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coast	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coast	compound
4	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

In the desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 desert	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 desert	det
3	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cave	det
2	cave	cave	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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