Exam question 1 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is…

Pursuant to the narrative, what was the precise period of delay requested by the princess before she consented to the prince's suit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: narrative, princess · What happens: be, request, consent · To what, where: precise period, delay

This is exam question 1 of lesson 1834 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 18: the ring is stolen and the cat sets out to win it back» 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	Pursuant	pursuant	ADV	_	4 narrative	advmod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 narrative	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 narrative	det
4	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 period	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 period	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 period	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 period	det
9	precise	precise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 period	amod
10	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 narrative	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 delay	case
12	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 period	nmod
13	requested	request	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 delay	acl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 princess	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 princess	det
16	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 requested	obl
17	before	before	SCONJ	_	19 consented	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 consented	nsubj
19	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 requested	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 suit	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 suit	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 prince	case
24	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 consented	obl
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 narrative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the narrative	the precise period	of delay	tree rules
2	request	participle		delay not said here	by the princess	vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	consent	past	princess		to the prince's suit	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to suit=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

one year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 year	nummod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a week

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

one month

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 month	nummod
2	month	month	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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