Exam question 4 · Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 1: the K…

What event is recorded as concluding the portion of the narrative under consideration?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: record, conclude · To what, where: portion, consideration

This is exam question 4 of lesson 1837 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Son of Seven Queens, part 1: the King chases a white hind and is tricked into blinding his seven Queens» 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	4 recorded	nsubj:pass
2	event	event	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 recorded	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 recorded	aux:pass
4	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 concluding	mark
6	concluding	conclude	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 recorded	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 portion	det
8	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 concluding	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 narrative	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 narrative	det
11	narrative	narrative	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 portion	nmod
12	under	under	ADP	_	13 consideration	case
13	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 concluding	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 recorded	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	record	present · passive							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	conclude	gerund		the portion of the narrative		consideration			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=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

The King's death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 death	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The birth of a child to the youngest of the Queens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 birth	det
2	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 youngest	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 child	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 birth	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 youngest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 youngest	det
8	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Queens	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queens	det
11	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 youngest	obl

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

Option 3

The hunt of the white hind through the north forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunt	det
2	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 hind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hind	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hind	amod
6	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	nmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	10 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
9	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 forest	compound
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	nmod

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

Option 4

The return of the white hind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 return	det
2	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 hind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hind	det
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hind	amod
6	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return		the white hind						nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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